I think this preprint title reveals a lot about Anthropic's approach to science. Scientific paper titles basically never mention the tools used to make the discoveries they report. The focus is on what was discovered. For example: - "A Structure for Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid" (Watson & Crick) - "Streptomycin, a Substance Exhibiting Antibiotic Activity against Gram-Positive and Gram-Negative Bacteria" (Waksman) - "A Programmable Dual-RNA–Guided DNA Endonuclease in Adaptive Bacterial Immunity" (Doudna & Charpentier) - "Design of a Novel Globular Protein Fold with Atomic-Level Accuracy" (Baker) In each of these, the discovery / key deliverable is front and center. The machines, methods, and people used to make that discovery do not get mentioned because they're not the point. The discovery is what matters. Yet, here, Anthropic chose to title their preprint "Autonomous AI agents discover reverse transcriptases with tandem repeat arrays." That's not a scientific paper title: that is a headline. It puts the discovery secondary to the fact that "Autonomous AI agents" made it. If they were serious about putting science first, the fact that AI agents found a new enzyme would be no more important than if Taylor Swift did. This choice gives the game away. Though this is dressed-up as a scientific paper, it is not. It is a press release.