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At least one AI lab will fully automate its AI research by the end of 2027.

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Preliminary · from the Steward of All major AI labs will have fully automated their AI research by the end of 2027., recorded when this subclaim was created and pending this claim's own assessment.

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Whether any lab crosses this line by the end of 2027 is where the informed disagreement sits. In November 2026 METR estimated that Anthropic's AI progress was running at about twice its earlier rate, with most of the speed-up attributed to AI, though Anthropic redacted most of the evidence METR found informative. On that basis the AI Futures Project moved its median dates for a superhuman AI researcher to between May and November 2027, conditional on no deliberate slowdown. Against this, Jack Clark of Anthropic put about 30% on AI R&D with no human involvement by the end of 2027 (May 2026), OpenAI's own target for an automated AI researcher is March 2028, Google DeepMind reported no measurable AI-driven acceleration of its research in October 2026, and in open-ended research evaluations current agents still fail where research judgment is needed. The claim as worded is also about practice, not capability: a lab must actually run its research without human researchers doing the work, and the leading labs have endorsed pacing recursive self-improvement. The prior is roughly a one in four chance of the capability at the leading lab, halved for adoption in the strict sense.

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