Industrializing a small field: Lessons from Vannevar

Crossposted from canaryinstitute.ai/blog/lessons-from-vannevar. Related LW pieces on AI Safety field-building and the push-vs-pull question. Related posts A system overview for near-term, low-trust AI compute verification — Naci Cankaya. A concrete example of the verification work built on Aumann and Lindell's covert-adversary framework that this essay cites. AI Safety has a scaling problem — Boyd Kane. Diagnoses the pull-model bottleneck directly: fellowships reject 95%+ of qualified applicants...