What would it take for AI to discover penicillin?

At the end of May, I attended the SciFM26 conference hosted at UChicago which had many speakers discussing agentic science and the future of AI+Science. This piece will attempt to capture the most interesting discussions I had about the future of AI+Science.Suppose you have a cutting edge autonomous lab that can plate and incubate bacteria, generate arbitrarily engineered plasmids, transform the plasmids into the bacteria, and run a slew of analytics on the cultures without any human interventio...