An artificial intelligence agent has performed brain surgery on a mouse model of epilepsy with the objective of reducing seizures. Given access to a motorized surgical rig with cameras and a spreadsheet containing 19 gene therapy vectors, the system selected the drug and target brain region independently. During the operation, the AI guided stereotaxic arms into the mouse's brain to inject 250 nanoliters of the chosen therapy.
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An artificial intelligence agent has performed brain surgery on a mouse model of epilepsy…: An artificial intelligence agent has performed brain surgery on a mouse model of epilepsy with the objective of reducing seizures.
Given access to a motorized surgical rig with cameras and a spreadsheet containing 19 gen…: Given access to a motorized surgical rig with cameras and a spreadsheet containing 19 gene therapy vectors, the system selected the drug and target brain region independently.
During the operation, the AI guided stereotaxic arms into the mouse's brain to inject 250…: During the operation, the AI guided stereotaxic arms into the mouse's brain to inject 250 nanoliters of the chosen therapy.
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Last night an AI agent performed brain surgery on a mouse.
We gave it 19 gene therapy vectors in a spreadsheet, a mouse model of epilepsy, access to a motorize surgery rig with cameras and one goal: reduce seizures.
It picked the drug. It picked the brain region. It derived the coordinates from three papers. Then it drove the stereotaxic arms into the brain and injected 250 nanolitres while watching the entry site through the rig camera for bleeding.
A licensed vet gated every irreversible step and held a physical kill switch to stop the AI agent.
Thread on what it decided, what it saw, and the moment it refused to let me override it.
[Writing this on the spot out of excitement, but I've been 18hrs in front of my laptop coding and coordinating this, so keeping it brief and descriptive, more cohesive thoughts on this soon...]
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