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  <title><![CDATA[AI scientist ‘team’ joins the search for extraterrestrial life]]></title>
  <body><![CDATA[<p>Georgia Tech researchers played a key role in the development of a groundbreaking AI framework designed to autonomously generate and evaluate scientific hypotheses in the field of astrobiology. <a href="https://matter-systems.gatech.edu/people/amirali-aghazadeh">Amirali Aghazadeh</a>, assistant professor in the school of electrical and computer engineering, co-authored the research and contributed to the architecture that divides tasks among multiple specialized AI agents.&nbsp;</p><p>This framework, known as the AstroAgents system, is a modular approach which allows the system to simulate a collaborative team of scientists, each with distinct roles such as data analysis, planning, and critique, thereby enhancing the depth and originality of the hypotheses generated</p><p><a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-01364-w">Read the full article by Nature</a></p>]]></body>
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      <value><![CDATA[Artificial intelligence (AI) researchers have created a system that can perform autonomous research in astrobiology, the study of the origins of life in the Universe.]]></value>
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                  <image_alt><![CDATA[Scientists want to use AI agents to study rock samples retrieved from Mars.Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS]]></image_alt>
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      <email><![CDATA[amelia.neumeister@research.gatech.edu]]></email>
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      <value><![CDATA[<p><a href="mailto:amelia.neumeister@research.gatech.edu">Amelia Neumeister</a> | Research Communications Program Manager</p><p>The Institute for Matter and Systems</p>]]></value>
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