Computing, Environment and Life Sciences
1,000 Scientist AI Jam Session
DOE national labs are working together to explore AI models for scientific research.
The labs are convening the first 1,000 Scientist AI Jam on Feb. 28. Multiple laboratories will explore advanced AI models, including using them on challenging scientific problems. This first AI Jam session will explore models from OpenAI and Anthropic, while future sessions will feature models from different AI companies.
Scientists hope to better understand and explore the potential impact of AI reasoning models on national security and science, especially how AI models may accelerate discoveries. Participants will gather data on model performance across a diverse range of realistic, representative tasks in scientific research and development. The results will give an early estimate of how these tools could benefit the scientific community.
The first AI Jam session is an in-person event hosted at Argonne, Berkeley, Brookhaven, Idaho, Livermore, Los Alamos, Oak Ridge, Pacific Northwest, and Princeton Plasma Physics national laboratories. Scientists from other DOE labs are also participating.
Each participant will bring problems from their scientific domain and spend the day using the latest capabilities of AI reasoning models to solve complex problems. Participants can work in small teams to avoid getting stuck and to help observe or analyze the performance of the models.
The AI Jam session provides a unique chance to contribute to the future development of AI reasoning models by inviting feedback on their use in real-world research challenges.