Can AI Agents Make Open-Ended Scientific Discovery? Evidence from Station

arXiv cs.AIOctober 8, 2026en

arXiv:2610.08927v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent AI systems have made rapid progress in scientific discovery when given well-defined metrics, but whether they can autonomously undertake open-ended scientific discovery remains unclear. We investigate AI's ability to tackle open-ended tasks in Station, an open-world environment in which multiple agents simulate a scientific ecosystem. To tackle challenges specific to open-ended tasks, we propose augmenting Station with two mechanisms: a Supervisor mechanism and periodic Meta Reflection, which encourage persistent exploration even when intermediate metrics are lacking. We construct open-ended tasks from three recent oral papers presented

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