AI bots wrote and reviewed all papers at this conference

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Event will assess how reviews by models compare with those written by humans.

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  1. Elizabeth Gibney
A group of mechanical toy robots posed as though listening to a mechanical toy robot giving a presentation on a laptop screen.

The Agents4Science conference was conceived as a ‘sandbox’ for science produced and evaluated by AI. Credit: charles taylor/iStock via Getty

Next week will see a first in computer science, with the launch of a scientific conference in which all of the papers — and all of the reviews — have been produced by machines.

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Nature 646, 786 (2025)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-025-03363-3

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