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The AutoResearch Moment: From Experimenter to Research Director

2026-03-17

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Automated research has just crossed a threshold, becoming increasingly visible through public-facing instruments like AUTORESEARCH https://github.com/karpathy/autoresearch. In this position paper, we use this system to highlight a broader methodological shift: the human role is moving from experimenter to research director. As agents cheaply generate and execute experimental branches, the primary unit of scientifi...

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1311f78c-2abb-5ec1-af1f-c7f058ee7ee8
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10.20944/preprints202603.1329.v1
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