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Google introduces the Paper Assistant Tool (PAT), an agentic AI framework that ingests full scientific manuscripts and produces comprehensive evaluations including theoretical checking, experiment validation, and flaw identification. PAT uses inference scaling techniques to achieve a 34% improvement over zero-shot recall on mathematical errors in the SPOT benchmark. The system was piloted as a pre-submission tool at two major CS conferences (STOC and ICML), demonstrating practical deployment at scale. The paper also proposes a four-level taxonomy of AI-human collaboration in scientific evaluation.