When AI Files a Patent, Who Actually Made the Discovery?

A paradigm shift in science means producing knowledge that could not have been produced by the previous method — not producing more knowledge faster through the same method. The Bluesky criticism of AI 'discoveries' ^[1] lands hardest here: if the terminal output of an AI research system is still a peer-reviewed paper evaluated by human referees using existing disciplinary standards, the epistemic infrastructure of science has not changed. The form has accelerated; the structure has not.