AI Researcher Capability & Automation Pipeline Simulator

Active Research Workflow Stage Pipeline Status: Idle Ready

Compute Budget (PFLOPS-days) 120

Human Oversight Gate (%) 35%

Verification Rigor

Cycle Iterations 10

Milestone Paradigm Comparison

Architecture Stage	2026 Reached: Automated Intern	March 2028: Autonomous Researcher	Simulated Status

Execution Telemetry 2026 Intern

Cycle Wall-Time

4.8 hrs

Baseline

Human Review Load

1.7 hrs

35% gate overhead

Hallucinations Pruned

3 runs

23% pruned

Valid Papers / Wk

3.5

+1.0x baseline

Stage Audit Stream

Live telemetry stream

Theoretical Grounding

Engadget reported OpenAI's milestone achieving an automated research intern, targeting a full automated AI researcher by March 2028. This simulator models the key architectural delta: shifting from human-dependent debugging and high-latency oversight to autonomous hypothesis pruning and self-verifying compute orchestration.