arXiv:2507.17311cs.LGcs.AI2025-07被引 6

AI助手EarthLink可自主完成气候科研全流程,助力发现新规律。

A Self-Evolving AI Agent System for Climate Science

  • 用自然语言交互实现规划、执行、分析一体化
  • 在气候任务中表现媲美初级研究员,成功发现大西洋尼诺前兆
  • 适合气候科学家快速验证假设,推动跨学科研究

地球科学的进步依赖于对地球多圈层数据的整合。然而,日益增长且碎片化的多圈层知识与数据已超出人类分析能力,成为发现瓶颈,尤其在气候科学领域。为此,我们提出EarthLink——首个自演化AI代理系统,作为地球科学家的交互式“副手”。通过自然语言交互,EarthLink将规划、代码执行、数据分析和物理推理整合为统一流程,直接应对该限制。除了效率提升,其展现出类人跨学科分析能力,在专家评估中表现堪比初级研究员,完成模型-观测对比、气候变化理解等核心气候任务。当被赋予开放科学问题(如大西洋尼诺前兆)时,EarthLink自主制定研究策略,识别可预测性来源,用现有数据验证假设,并提出物理解释机制。这一能力开启新型人机科研范式:科学家专注价值判断,AI处理复杂数据整合与分析,显著加速地球科学的发现速度与广度。系统可通过https://earthlink.intern-ai.org.cn访问。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Scientific progress in Earth science depends on integrating data across the planet's interconnected spheres. However, the accelerating volume and fragmentation of multi-sphere knowledge and data have surpassed human analytical capacity. This creates a major bottleneck for discovery, especially in climate science. To address this challenge, we introduce EarthLink, the first self-evolving AI agent system designed as an interactive "copilot" for Earth scientists. Through natural language interaction, EarthLink automates the entire research workflow by integrating planning, code execution, data analysis, and physical reasoning into a unified process that directly addresses this limitation. Beyond efficiency, it exhibits human-like cross-disciplinary analytical ability and achieves proficiency comparable to a junior researcher in expert evaluations on core large-scale climate tasks, including model-observation comparison and climate change understanding. When tasked with an open scientific problem, specifically the discovery of precursors of the Atlantic Niño, EarthLink autonomously developed a research strategy, identified sources of predictability, verified its hypotheses with available data, and proposed a physically consistent mechanism. These emerging capabilities enable a new human-AI research paradigm. Scientists can focus on value and result judgments, while AI systems handle complex data analysis and knowledge integration. This accelerates the pace and breadth of discovery in Earth sciences. The system is accessible at our website https://earthlink.intern-ai.org.cn.

气候科学AI代理自动研究多源数据融合

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