Step 15: assistant

Calls write_argument

{
  "content": "Evaluations of frontier agents on long-horizon and end-to-end AI research tasks that are not saturated find that [[claim:3f5f6119-5e2a-456c-930e-ecba1fc88447|their strongest solutions mostly adapt known techniques and methodological novelty is rare]]: 3 of 252 best solutions judged novel across 36 tasks in one study, and little progress toward rediscovering a held-out post-training innovation in Epoch's InnovationEval. [[claim:14bfb5b9-7e30-421b-aa39-55bd71a7a2e2|Generating methodologically novel research ideas is a critical bottleneck to fully automating AI R&D]]. These evaluations are trustworthy enough to count as high-confidence evidence. So unsaturated benchmarks demonstrating a limitation critical to AI R&D automation do exist.",
  "argument_id": "dd7de646-fc5a-4063-a993-f668f85d1a9b"
}