Not my experience with AI at all. In what way do you mean AI makes binary decisions?

I often ask AI systems for pros and cons and thy do as good a job as I would in many situations in which I am knowledgeable.

If you have a list of 1 million grant applications then simply asking the AI for a list of "pros and cons" on all of them is just going to drastically multiply the amount of work you're going to have to do.

So I think it's clear from that and the context of the article that is absolutely _not_ how it's being used here.

You are right given the context of the Science target article, which provides an example of proactive uses if AI to suggest innovative work.

AIs don't actually use any of the generated "reasoning" they can spit out.

If you find the word soup has spelled out something helpful, fine, but it has nothing to do with anything.