Step 16: tool results

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  "reasoning": "An AI that fully automates coding and matches top researchers' research taste could do all research work other than agenda-setting, so the probability that this stronger milestone is reached at Anthropic or OpenAI by the end of 2027 is a floor for this claim, and the claim's credence must sit at or above it.",
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  "reasoning": "A frontier model autonomously training its successor by the end of 2027 would show, in practice, most of the capability this claim describes; evidence for that forecast is evidence for this one, though the reverse does not hold.",
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  "reasoning": "The stages at which 2026 agents struggle (choosing what evidence would settle a question, changing course, interpreting results) are part of the non-agenda research work the claim says AI will be able to do in full. The size of the present gap sets how much must change in thirteen months.",
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  "reasoning": "OpenAI's self-declared research-intern milestone is the step before the automated AI researcher it targets for March 2028; how that declaration holds up shows how a lab's declaration of the capability in this claim should be read.",
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