LabBench: Can AI agents decide what experiment to run next?
September 28, 2026 · Ben Reilly, Leah Damon, Daniel McKinnon LabBench: Can AI agents decide what experiment to run next? From our preprint, LabBench: Benchmarking AI wet lab experimental design and decision-making for AI Agents (PDF). Accelerating biological experimentation relies on quickly deciding which experiment comes next.
- ▪September 28, 2026 · Ben Reilly, Leah Damon, Daniel McKinnon LabBench: Can AI agents decide what experiment to run next?
- ▪From our preprint, LabBench: Benchmarking AI wet lab experimental design and decision-making for AI Agents (PDF).
- ▪Accelerating biological experimentation relies on quickly deciding which experiment comes next.
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September 28, 2026 · Ben Reilly, Leah Damon, Daniel McKinnon LabBench: Can AI agents decide what experiment to run next? From our preprint, LabBench: Benchmarking AI wet lab experimental design and decision-making for AI Agents (PDF). Partner with us. Accelerating biological experimentation relies on quickly deciding which experiment comes next. Picking the test that can fastest invalidate or support a hypothesis is a skill only human experts perform reliably today. To scale discovery past human capability, we have to evaluate and improve AI agents on it. LabBench is 20 held-out tasks built from real wet-lab records in drug discovery and genomics.
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