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AI Discovers New Biological System? Controversy Erupts Over Anthropic's Claim
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News18•09-10-2026, 17:13
AI Discovers New Biological System? Controversy Erupts Over Anthropic's Claim
- •Anthropic claimed its AI model Claude identified a unique biological system called ART in bacteriophage viruses.
- •The newly proposed system shares similarities with the famous CRISPR gene-editing tool.
- •Researcher Mario Rodriguez Mestre objected, stating his team had been studying this system for years and had shared unpublished data with Claude.
- •Anthropic clarified that its model is not trained on user data and focuses on identifying patterns in genetic databases.
- •The discovery has not yet been proven in a laboratory or published in a peer-reviewed journal.
Key Questions Answered
Anthropic claimed that its AI model Claude identified a unique biological system in bacteriophage viruses called ART, or Array-Associated Reverse Transcriptases, which shares some features with CRISPR.
Mario Rodriguez Mestre from the University of Copenhagen claimed his team had been studying the same system for years and questioned whether the AI discovery was truly independent after he shared unpublished content.
No, Anthropic's claim has not yet been proven in a laboratory nor has the research been published in a peer-reviewed scientific journal.
