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Jose Penades

Jose Penades

Professor of Microbiology, Imperial College London

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"The AI arrived at the same conclusion we did — independently, without access to our unpublished work." — Jose Penades, Imperial College London statement, 2025

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Google builds an AI system that generates scientific hypotheses — and some are proving correct

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Validated AI Co-Scientist's antimicrobial resistance hypothesis

Google released an AI system in February 2025 that doesn't just search scientific literature — it proposes original hypotheses, then refines them through internal debate among six specialized AI agents. In one early test, the system independently arrived at the same mechanism for how antibiotic-resistance genes spread between bacterial species that a team at Imperial College London had spent a decade proving in the lab. It did so in two days, without access to their unpublished findings.

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