KEY POINTS
- Google researcher Pietro Miotti said 48 AI agents found a possibly unmapped Maya site in Mexico using NASA lidar data.
- Archaeologists pointed out that the site had already been documented in an academic journal more than a year earlier.
- Experts say AI tools often miss existing research and can push the work of verification onto specialists.
A claim that a team of AI agents had found a possibly unknown Maya site in Mexico has been undercut by archaeologists, who say the location was already documented in academic literature. The Verge reported on the episode, which has drawn criticism online.
