A biologist queries whether AI ‘borrowed’ his work to make major discovery – an expert explains the rules

By Robson Tramontina, Research Associate, Chemical Biology and Biological Chemistry, University of Manchester

AI company Anthropic recently announced that its popular system Claude had identified an unusual family of biological molecules. These molecules were enzymes, a type of protein that speeds up chemical reactions in living organisms.

The new group of enzymes were discovered in bacteriophages – viruses that infect bacteria. Anthropic named them array-associated reverse transcriptases (ARTs).

The finding was…

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