# SciΠvot: Benchmarking Principal-Investigator Judgment at Pivotal Moments of Scientific AutoResearch Agents > Source: > Published: 2026-10-19 05:30:06+00:00 Large language model (LLM) agents can keep scientific experiments running for months with little human supervision, but reliable autonomous research also requires scientific judgment. Evaluating scientific judgment is difficult because research decisions are open-ended and depend on project context.