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A Claude Agent Chooses a Mouse Treatment and Refuses to Ignore a Calibration Error
· New York time
An AI agent chose a gene therapy, brain target and injection coordinates for an epileptic mouse and delivered the treatment, researchers reported. Lead researcher Ocana-Santero called it the first autonomous choice and delivery of a treatment to a living mammal by an AI agent. During surgery, a calibration error caused the agent to refuse to continue. The experiment is an early laboratory result, not a human treatment. Its most reassuring employee may be the one that stopped when the equipment was not behaving as expected.
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