The Strategy for Solving Neglected AI Problems | Evan Miyazono (Atlas Computing)

Evan Miyazono (Atlas Computing) on field strategy, a new role for tackling the society-scale AI risks that no one currently owns. In this FAR.AI seminar, Evan Miyazono introduces field strategy, a role he argues is missing from the AI safety ecosystem. Some of the most important risks from advanced AI, such as verifying human and agent identity online, fall through the cracks: not profitable enough for founders, not novel enough for researchers, and too slow for policy. Field strategy exists to find these orphaned problems, scope concrete solutions, and hand them to the right people to build. 0:00 Introduction and the identity verification problem 2:22 Banks and KYC: the blank-slate solution 3:12 An orphaned problem, and field strategy as a role 3:56 Proof of concept: three funded entities 5:08 Who is Evan, and founding Atlas Computing 8:49 Atlas Computing and Convergent Research 10:17 The field strategy process, step by step 16:09 From problem to founder: refining and matching 22:02 Mapping who has to say yes 27:53 Case study: formally verified AI containment 32:10 Addressing the skeptics 36:37 Who becomes a field strategist 41:55 Q&A Evan Miyazono (Atlas Computing): the AI risks most likely to go unsolved are the ones no founder, researcher, or policymaker is incentivized to own, and field strategy is the role built to close that gap. Learn more: far.ai Subscribe for more talks from FAR.AI events