Chapter 3, the outer loop

The test. Withdrawn if the public record shows a laboratory giving a system a broad mandate rather than a problem, the system choosing the question and the test of success, the result reproduced by an unaffiliated laboratory and adopted into the next production model, and a third party auditing the prompts and the interventions. All five conditions are needed to withdraw it. A broad mandate with the system choosing the question and the test of success weakens it.

open Open. The inner loop of research is automated and the outer loop is human.

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Chapter 3 — The Missing Researcher

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.

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  author = {Dryburgh, Lee S.},
  title = {{Chapter 3, the outer loop}},
  howpublished = {In \emph{The AI Compute Race}, DRYBURGH},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://dryburgh.com/vol1/tests/2027-4},
  note = {Accessed 2026-11-01}
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