Agentic AI Scientists Are Not Built For Autonomous Scientific Discovery

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arXiv:2605.08956v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: A growing body of work pursues AI scientists capable of end-to-end autonomous scientific discovery. This position paper argues that although they already function as co-scientists, agentic AI scientists are not built for autonomous scientific discovery. We identify the following challenges in building and deploying autonomous AI scientists: (1) Problem selection is influenced by the McNamara fallacy; (2) Agents are built on large language model