Examples go back 50 years, across many of the disciplines you’ve mentioned, but to throw out one that’s recent, on topic, and highly cited, there’s:

Chain-of-Thought Prompting Elicits Reasoning in Large Language Models https://arxiv.org/pdf/2501.19201

It effectively treats “reasoning” as the ability to generate intermediate steps leading to a correct conclusion.

Now, is this valid reasoning? Well, depends on the claim and the definition of reasoning.

When someone just says AI can’t reason, I could argue for or against that depending on the specifics. It’s not enough to just say yes or no.