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AI agents finished whole research papers on their own, but judgment, not experimentation, is where they stalled

Researchers from Princeton, the UK AI Security Institute, and other institutions gave frontier agents the research questions behind two unpublished NeurIPS submissions, then had the original authors grade the results. The agents handled everything from the literature review to typesetting without human help, yet both papers were rejected. Here are the five failures the paper traced in the run logs, along with the limits the authors acknowledged.