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title: "Chapter 3, the outer loop, on Anthropic’s date, due 2 September 2027 · The AI Compute Race · DRYBURGH"
source: https://dryburgh.com/vol1/tests/2027-10
description: "Chapter 3, the outer loop, on Anthropic's date: due 2 September 2027."
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# Chapter 3, the outer loop, on Anthropic’s date

Due 2 September 2027

**The test.** The twelve months of Tom Brown, Anthropic’s chief compute officer, who said on 2 September 2026 that “a once-in-a-generation scientist for key scientific fields” could come within twelve months. The claim weakens if Anthropic shows on the public record a system choosing its own question and test of success in a scientific field, with the result reproduced by an unaffiliated laboratory. An account by Anthropic, published by that day, of its most capable research system that shows a person still choosing the question or the test of success confirms it.

open Open.

From *The AI Compute Race*. [Read the book](https://dryburgh.com/vol1#buy)

**Falls due:** 2 September 2027

**Read on:** The public record

**Chapter:** [Chapter 3 — The Missing Researcher](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/notes/chapter-3)The dated promise of an AI that does its own research, what the laboratories have published, and what the public record can and cannot yet check.

## What it names

- Party [Anthropic](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/parties/anthropic)

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- Scorecard indicator [Autonomous research outer loop](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/scorecard/indicators/autonomous-research-outer-loop)
- Person [Brown, Tom](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/people#brown-tom)

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