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title: "Chapter 3, the outer loop, due 31 August 2027 · The AI Compute Race · DRYBURGH"
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description: "Chapter 3, the outer loop: due 31 August 2027."
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# Chapter 3, the outer loop

Due 31 August 2027

**The test.** Withdrawn if the public record shows a laboratory giving a system a broad mandate rather than a problem, the system choosing the question and the test of success, the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.

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

**Falls due:** 31 August 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.

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