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What Happens When AI Gets a Lab?
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What happens when AI moves beyond the chatbot and into the laboratory? From Claude-designed proteins that bind scorpion toxins to robots that assemble optics experiments, we examine what AI can do for science and what still has to be proven in the real world. Lester Nare and Krishna Choudhary explore the gap between generating a promising design and demonstrating that it works. We also unpack BrainChat, a research platform that lets epilepsy patients interact with their brain-recording data and contribute feedback to seizure detection, and a 15-year study of orangutan mothers facilitating playdates for their young. Along the way: why binding a toxin is not the same as neutralizing it, how…