---
id: "entity-iain-cheeseman"
type: "entity"
entityType: "person"
canonicalName: "Iain Cheeseman"
aliases: []
source_timestamps: ["§ The Human Layer"]
tags: ["researcher", "biology"]
related: ["entity-cheeseman-lab-mit", "concept-human-role-ownership"]
canonical_url: "https://cheeseman-lab.mit.edu/iain-cheeseman"
sources: ["agentic"]
isSpeakerEntity: true
---
## Segment 6 — agentic

## Article 17 — a017

# Iain Cheeseman

**Profile.** Professor of Biology at MIT studying chromosome segregation and cell division; leads the [[entity-cheeseman-lab-mit|Cheeseman Lab]]. Canonical reference: https://cheeseman-lab.mit.edu/iain-cheeseman

**Role in this source.** A real-world example of the human 'owner' in an agent-first workflow (not an author or theorist).

**Attributed contribution.** Uses a [[entity-claude-d17|Claude]]-powered system to automate CRISPR gene-knockout screening analysis and exemplifies [[concept-human-role-ownership|ownership]] by making the final $20,000 resource-allocation decision based on the agent's pattern identification (the agent surfaced RNA-modification pathways other models missed). Note: the lab's public materials do not yet explicitly document this specific Claude deployment.