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AI research agent
also autonomous research agent or AI-research agent or autoresearch system
Definition of AI research agent
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: an AI agent that pursues a research goal by planning and carrying out an iterative sequence of activities such as reviewing literature, forming hypotheses, running code or experiments, analyzing results, and revising its approach with limited step-by-step human direction
- The AI research agent tested several model architectures overnight and left the scientist a record of every experiment.
- Before accepting the result, the laboratory asked a human researcher to reproduce the autonomous research agent's strongest finding.
Origin & history
AI research agent was documented as a technical term by 2023 in work on MLAgentBench, which evaluated language-model agents performing iterative machine-learning research tasks. During 2024–2026, autonomous research agent and autoresearch system became broader labels for systems that could move beyond literature search to generate ideas, execute experiments, inspect results, and refine research artifacts.
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"AI research agent." AI Dictionary, Dadgogo, https://dadgogo.com/dictionary/ai-research-agent/. Accessed 12 Oct. 2026.