AI agents are ready to automate the repetitive technical work in experimental physics, letting researchers focus on novel insights and validation rather than coding routine analyses.
AI agents can now autonomously run physics experiments end-to-end, from data analysis to paper writing. Researchers showed that Claude can handle all stages of high-energy physics analysis—selecting events, estimating backgrounds, calculating uncertainties, and drawing conclusions—using only a dataset, code tools, and access to prior research papers.