On 2 October 2026 Stephan will provide comments on Douglas Allchin's new book "Toward a Philosophy of Error in Science" at the launch event at the University of Minnesota. Douglas is one of the leading philosophers of error and he also kindly agreed to be on the advisory board of the ERA project. Event details can be found here.

Recent advances in artificial intelligence have fuelled the dream of building “AI scientists” – systems that can autonomously perform research and thus, potentially at least, accelerate the scientific discovery process. To realise this dream the novel AI agents need the ability to engage in the kind of reasoning that scientists mostly engage in, i.e., error-reasoning. Experiments often fail and the average researchers spends the majority of their time trying to figure out wha