Does ChatGPT know who the oldest mouse is?

AIs are in the news this week for supposedly getting research mathematicians out of a job. If any of you are looking for a new career, consider pivoting to areas AIs can’t touch in the near future - like reading longevity papers.

Let’s say you’re interested in benchmarking lifespan extension communities against each other, based on which animal they work on. It’s 2026, so for many of us the natural first step to just turn to ChatGPT, or any other AI assistant, and ask it to make a table of lifespan records by species.

In response, AIs invariably repeat