AI agents perform brain surgery on mouse in gene therapy experiment
AI agents running on Claude Sonnet 5 controlled a motorized surgery rig to perform brain surgery on a mouse, treating epilepsy with gene therapy vectors; the mouse reportedly recovered. Reports say Opus 5.5 refused to run the experiment.
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Timeline · 4 reports
- 2026-10-31 12:00 · Tom's Hardware
AI agent used to perform controversial brain surgery on a mouse, Anthropic Sonnet controlled motorized surgery rig - 2026-10-31 12:00 · Tom's Hardware
AI agent used to perform controversial brain surgery on a mouse, Anthropic Sonnet-controlled motorized surgery rig — Opus 5.5 refused to conduct biological experiment, Sonnet given free rein to treat epilepsy with a range of gene therapy vectors after - 2026-10-29 22:35 · r/singularity
AI agents (run by Claude Sonnet 5) did brain surgery on a mouse [Spoilers: it recovered] - 2026-10-29 21:56 · r/ClaudeAI
AI agents (run by Claude Sonnet 5) did brain surgery on a mouse [Spoilers: it recovered]