{"id":4226,"date":"2026-03-20T14:34:41","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T14:34:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news678.top\/?p=4226"},"modified":"2026-03-20T14:34:41","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T14:34:41","slug":"the-download-openai-is-building-a-fully-automated-researcher-and-a-psychedelic-trial-blind-spot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news678.top\/?p=4226","title":{"rendered":"The Download: OpenAI is building a fully automated researcher, and a psychedelic trial blind spot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>By September, the company plans to build \u201can autonomous AI research intern\u201d that can take on a\u00a0small number of specific research problems. The intern will be the precursor to the fully automated multi-agent system, which is slated to debut in 2028.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In an exclusive interview this week, OpenAI\u2019s chief scientist, Jakub\u00a0Pachocki, talked me through the plans.\u00a0Find out what I discovered.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2014Will\u00a0Douglas\u00a0Heaven<\/em>\u00a0<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Mind-altering substances are (still) falling short in clinical trials<\/strong>\u00a0<\/h3>\n<p>Over the last decade,\u00a0we\u2019ve\u00a0seen scientific interest in\u00a0psychedelic drugs explode.\u00a0Compounds like psilocybin\u2014which is found in magic mushrooms\u2014are being explored for all sorts of health applications, including treatments for depression, PTSD, addiction, and even obesity.\u00a0But\u00a0two studies out earlier this week\u00a0demonstrate\u00a0just how difficult it is to study these drugs.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>For me,\u00a0they\u00a0show just how overhyped these substances have become.\u00a0<strong>Find out why here<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2014Jessica\u00a0Hamzelou<\/em>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>This\u00a0<\/strong><strong>story<\/strong><strong>\u00a0first appeared in The Checkup, MIT Technology Review\u2019s weekly biotech newsletter.\u00a0<\/strong><strong>Sign up<\/strong><strong>\u00a0to receive it in your inbox every Wednesday.<\/strong>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Read more:\u00a0What do psychedelic drugs do to our brains? AI could help us find out\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>#Download #OpenAI #building #fully #automated #researcher #psychedelic #trial #blind #spot<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By September, the company plans to build \u201can autonomous AI research intern\u201d that can take&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4217,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[4169,4157,4171,2494,803,761,1284,4170,4158,4146,4168,977],"class_list":["post-4226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-stories","tag-and-a-psychedelic-trial-blind-spot","tag-automated","tag-blind","tag-building","tag-download","tag-fully","tag-openai","tag-psychedelic","tag-researcher","tag-spot","tag-the-download-openai-is-building-a-fully-automated-researcher","tag-trial"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/research-assistant3c.jpg",1200,600,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/research-assistant3c-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/research-assistant3c-300x150.jpg",300,150,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/research-assistant3c-768x384.jpg",640,320,true],"large":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/research-assistant3c-1024x512.jpg",640,320,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/research-assistant3c.jpg",1200,600,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/research-assistant3c.jpg",1200,600,false],"covernews-featured":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/research-assistant3c-1024x512.jpg",1024,512,true],"covernews-medium":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/research-assistant3c-540x340.jpg",540,340,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"admin","author_link":"https:\/\/news678.top\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/news678.top\/?cat=7\" rel=\"category\">Stories<\/a>","tag_info":"Stories","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4226\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}