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Paper2Agent: Nature Paper Turns Published Research Into Queryable, Executable AI Agents

By Alexis Dufresne Published September 20, 2026 at 00:38 UTC

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Paper2Agent, published in Nature Sept 16, converts static papers into interactive AI agents that can run their own analyses on demand — hitting 91.2% accuracy across 100 computational biology papers — redefining the scientific paper from passive document to 'a knowledgeable entity capable of execution and dialogue' and making reproducibility automatic rather than aspirational.

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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social: When your research paper can talk to you and interact with other research papers.... Reimagining science publishing and knowledge disseminat… →
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It would be fun to listen to a future episode of the Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 podcast (that uses *ridicule as praxis") about this article 🤣 "Reimagining research papers as interactive and reliable AI agents" www.nat…
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