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Historian uses AI to uncover new eyewitness account of the dodo

Original: Using Opus 5.5 to discover a new eyewitness record of the dodo

A researcher reports using Anthropic's Claude Opus 5.5 model to surface a previously unknown eyewitness record of the dodo, the extinct bird of Mauritius. The account describes poring over archival material with AI assistance to identify the overlooked description. The finding has drawn attention for suggesting large language models can help historians make genuine archival discoveries, not just summarise existing knowledge.

Why now: It is a striking claim that an AI model helped make an original historical discovery about a famous extinct species.

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