@article{mechanistaiasascientificinstrumentfordis,
  title = {Mechanist: AI as a Scientific Instrument for Discovering the Mechanisms of Intelligence},
  author = {Mengru Wang and Junfeng Fang and Shuofei Qiao and Zhenqian Xu and Haoming Xu and Haoxiong Wang and Shumin Deng and Linyi Yang and Zhixiang Cui and Xin Xu and Yunzhi Yao and Buqiang Xu and Fei Shen and Haozhe Luo and Yunxiang Wei and Ningyu Zhang and Julian McAuley and Tat Seng Chua and Huajun Chen},
  year = {2026},
  eprint = {2608.12036},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.12036},
}