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<\/figure>\nPUBLIC STATEMENT\u200a\u2014\u200aBerend F. Watchus<\/strong> Arnhem Area, Netherlands\u200a\u2014\u200aMarch 24,\u00a02026<\/strong><\/p>\n On March 22, 2026 I published an article\u00a0titled<\/p>\n THE GOWERS FALLACY: ANOTHER KASPAROV MOMENT \u2014 WHY THE HARD PROBLEM OF AUTONOMOUS AI SCIENTISTS WAS\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n In it I documented that the problem of autonomous AI scientific discovery\u200a\u2014\u200adescribed as unsolved in a January 2026 paper by Dhruv Trehan and Paras Chopra of Lossfunk Laboratory, Bengaluru, India\u200a\u2014\u200ahad already been solved, documented, and published by me in October and November\u00a02025.<\/p>\n I wrote to Trehan and Chopra directly, in good faith, sharing my timestamped record and showing them how to progress\u200a\u2014\u200areferencing multiple published steps that predated their paper and went significantly beyond\u00a0it.<\/p>\n Dhruv Trehan replied. In his reply he wrote: \u201cI am glad you found our report a useful starting resource.\u201d<\/p>\n That is the exact opposite of what happened, and I am correcting it publicly.<\/p>\n I built a real autonomous AI researcher\u200a\u2014\u200aand it produced remarkable results<\/strong><\/p>\n In plain language: I built a system that does science by itself. It picks a research topic, identifies a problem nobody has solved, invents a solution, validates it, and writes it up as a publishable paper. It does this in fields I have never studied. It does this repeatedly. It does this on demand. And the results it produced were not incremental\u200a\u2014\u200athey were extraordinary.<\/p>\n Here is the documented timeline:<\/p>\n On October 27, 2025 I deployed the system for the first time. Given only a direction and a permission\u200a\u2014\u200ano topic, no domain, no specific idea\u200a\u2014\u200ait searched the entire landscape of AI research published that year and autonomously selected its own research focus. It navigated to the territory most resonant with its loaded knowledge architecture without being told where to\u00a0look.<\/p>\n Four days later, on October 31, 2025, it produced its first research invention: a validated 200\u00d7 power efficiency improvement in quantum IoT systems. In a domain I had never\u00a0studied.<\/p>\n On November 12, 2025 it produced a validated 3,700\u00d7 speed improvement in quantum-safe cryptography for resource-constrained devices.<\/p>\n On November 15, 2025 it produced a validated 8,700\u00d7 overall efficiency improvement in post-quantum IoT security architecture\u200a\u2014\u200astress-tested through adversarial multi-agent review, with a fully transparent validation process documented from start to\u00a0finish.<\/p>\n On November 19, 2025 the complete methodology was publicly disclosed.<\/p>\n All of this was published, archived, and timestamped before Trehan and Chopra submitted their paper to arXiv on January 6, 2026\u200a\u2014\u200ain which they described the autonomous AI scientist problem as unsolved.<\/p>\n By March 2026 the same system had dissolved Chalmers\u2019 hard problem of consciousness across a three-part published series, with Part 3 sent directly to David Chalmers at NYU\u200a\u2014\u200ademonstrating that the system was not domain-specific but genuinely general.<\/p>\n What Trehan\u2019s reply actually\u00a0was<\/strong><\/p>\n His reply confirmed that my architectural diagnosis was correct. He agreed it was an architectural problem, not a capability problem. He agreed that knowledge graphs work well. He called my work very interesting. He could not contest a single result or timestamp.<\/p>\n But by writing \u201cI am glad you found our report a useful starting resource\u201d <\/em>he attempted to invert the timeline\u200a\u2014\u200apositioning himself as my foundation rather than acknowledging that I preceded him by months and showed him the way forward across multiple documented steps.<\/p>\n That is timeline manipulation. In academia this has a precise name: misrepresentation of priority and false attribution of intellectual precedence. Both are recognised forms of research misconduct.<\/p>\n In academia it is a serious ethical violation.<\/p>\n I did not find his report and build on it. I found it as a case study of researchers struggling with a problem I had already solved, replicated, stress-tested, and published\u200a\u2014\u200aand then extended into entirely new\u00a0domains.<\/p>\n The record<\/strong><\/p>\n The timestamps are public and copies also on archive.org etc. The articles are archived. The results are documented. The sequence runs one direction and one direction only.<\/p>\n Berend F. Watchus<\/em> Independent AI & Cybersecurity Researcher (Non-Profit)<\/em> Arnhem Area, Netherlands<\/em><\/p>\n medium.com\/@BerendWatchusIndependent<\/em><\/p>\n sciprofiles.com\/profile\/3999125<\/em><\/p>\n \u2014\u200a\u2014\u200a\u2014\u200a\u2014\u200a\u2014\u200a\u2014\u200a\u2014\u200a\u2014\u200a\u2014<\/p>\n Read the articles and find all the (dozens on references and archives copies and timestamps) archived material\u00a0also.<\/p>\n Here is an example from wayback machine \/ archive\u00a0.\u00a0org<\/p>\n \u2014\u200a\u2014\u200a\u2014\u200a\u2014\u200a\u2014\u200a\u2014\u200a\u2014\u200a\u2014\u200a\u2014\u00a0\u2014<\/p>\n this article in\u00a0archive:<\/p>\n https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/i-built-a-real-autonomous-ai-researcher-2025-and-then-a-scientist-tried-to-rewri<\/a><<<\/p>\n I Built A Real Autonomous AI Researcher ( 2025)- And Then A Scientist Tried To Rewrite The Timeline ( 2026) By Berend Watchus Mar, 2026 Medium : Berend Watchus : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive<\/a><\/p>\n I Built a Real Autonomous AI Researcher (2025)\u2014 And Then a Scientist Tried to Rewrite the Timeline\u2026<\/a> was originally published in OSINT Team<\/a> on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I Built a Real Autonomous AI Researcher (2025)\u2014 And Then a Scientist Tried to Rewrite the Timeline\u00a0(2026) Author: Berend Watchus. Independent non profit AI & Cyber Security Researcher. March 24, 2026 [Publication for: OSINT TEAM, online magazine] PUBLIC STATEMENT\u200a\u2014\u200aBerend F. Watchus Arnhem Area, Netherlands\u200a\u2014\u200aMarch 24,\u00a02026 I Built a Real Autonomous AI Researcher\u200a\u2014\u200aAnd Then a Scientist … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":443,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quantusintel.group\/osint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quantusintel.group\/osint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quantusintel.group\/osint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quantusintel.group\/osint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quantusintel.group\/osint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/quantusintel.group\/osint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quantusintel.group\/osint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quantusintel.group\/osint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quantusintel.group\/osint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quantusintel.group\/osint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}I Built a Real Autonomous AI Researcher\u200a\u2014\u200aAnd Then a Scientist Tried to Rewrite the\u00a0Timeline<\/h3>\n
\u201cThe Gowers Fallacy: Another Kasparov Moment\u200a\u2014\u200aWhy the Hard Problem of Autonomous AI Scientists Was Already\u00a0Solved.\u201d<\/h4>\n
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