Introducing LifeSciBench

OpenAI has released LifeSciBench, a benchmark authored and reviewed by domain experts to evaluate how AI systems handle real-world life sciences research tasks. Expert-constructed benchmarks are a meaningful step toward accountability in high-stakes domains, though the value of any benchmark ultimately depends on whether the tasks it measures reflect the full complexity of scientific judgment. The release adds to a growing infrastructure for evaluating AI in scientific contexts, an area where rigorous standards matter considerably.