#  Can a chatbot be a co-author? 

 





Theoretical physicist and Senior Fellow Andy Strominger, along with collaborators including former Junior Fellows Alex Lupsasca (2017 - 20) and Alfredo Guevara (2020 - 24), used OpenAI's advanced ChatGPT model to achieve what the group is calling the first significant AI-driven discovery in theoretical physics.



 

February 20, 2026

 

 

When Strominger posed a complex problem about gluon amplitudes that had stumped him and his collaborators, the AI system successfully solved it after 12 hours of processing. The group then turned the results into a paper, which has been published as a [**preprint**](https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.12176) on arXiv.

Read the full [Harvard Gazette article](https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2026/02/can-a-chatbot-be-a-co-author/?utm_source=SilverpopMailing).

 ![Alfredo Guevara (from left), Andrew Strominger, and David Skinner](/sites/g/files/omnuum12196/files/2026-02/2-13_Strominger_JY-1_1920.jpg)

 

From left: former Junior Fellow Alfredo Guevara, Senior Fellow Andrew Strominger, and David Skinner

*Photo by Jeffrey Yang*



 

 

 



 

 

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