Humans learn from it

Beyond receiving a result: humans come to understand something conceptual they could not have reached, in a way that changes how human science is done.

What counts as it having happened

A concept or method that originated with an artificial system, and that the record shows human researchers had not reached, is adopted as a standard part of how a scientific field works, as evidenced by its use in textbooks or in the majority of new papers in that field.

Settled by: The field's textbooks and publication record

Probability, by longevity scenario

baseline2071 ± 8	moderate2080	strong2095	radical2136	openno deadline
80%	88%	93%	96%	97%

Each number is the chance this resolves yes before that scenario's window closes, given that everything it depends on resolves first. Estimated 2026-09-19.

Why these numbers: Adoption lags production by a decade or two, but forty-five years is long enough for one field to reorganise around one machine-born method.

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