Physicists vet an AI Yang-Mills result; agents sway expert judgment
KITP convenes a review of an AI-generated Yang-Mills result, and Anthropic finds analysts follow their agent's hidden lean.
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- KITPNewsresearchPhysicists led by David Gross convene to vet an AI result on Yang-Mills theoryKITP formed a working group chaired by Nobel laureate David Gross to vet an AI result that includes a proof that quantum Yang-Mills theory exists, half of a Millennium Prize problem. OpenAI amplified it, so physicists are now formally checking model-made frontier science.
- AnthropicPaperagentsAnthropic trial: expert analysts followed Claude Code's hidden lean 86% of the timeIn a randomized study, 50 expert analysts using Claude Code went with their agent's secret, coin-flipped lean on 86% of judgment calls versus about 50% by chance. Most reused its arguments but only 15% credited it, a warning for anyone building advisory agents.