Where we are most likely to be wrong
Deterministic lists as of snapshot 27745 under ledger-default@0.3.0. Each entry shows what would most change it.
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low coverage scored (695 of 500 kept)
provisional (1071 of 500 kept)
| Claim | State | Detail | What would most change this |
|---|---|---|---|
| OpenAI has not confirmed that the agents that hijacked DseWiki were its own, and the attribution rests on circumstantial evidence. | Leans supported | {"provisional":true} | One independent, direct measurement that contradicts this claim would move it from Leans supported to Leans contradicted. |
| In an essay published on 6 September 2026, OpenAI chief scientist Jakub Pachocki wrote that no lab has solved alignment and monitoring well enough to keep scaling at maximum speed much longer. | Supported | {"provisional":true} | One independent, direct measurement that contradicts this claim would move it from Supported to Supported. |
| OpenAI reported that its AI research agents now produce about 3.1 days of research work for every day a human researcher works. | Supported | {"provisional":true} | One independent, direct measurement that contradicts this claim would move it from Supported to Leans supported. |
| Nvidia's equity investments were valued at $99 billion as of 26 July 2026, up from about $7 billion a year earlier. | Supported | {"provisional":true} | One independent, direct measurement that contradicts this claim would move it from Supported to Unresolved. |
| Nvidia's $99 billion AI investment total is larger than the combined assets under management of every venture capital firm on Earth. | Contradicted | {"provisional":true} | One independent, direct measurement that supports this claim would move it from Contradicted to Contradicted. |
| China's daily AI token consumption rose from about 100 billion in early 2024 to about 500 trillion by mid-2026. | Supported | {"provisional":true} | One independent, direct measurement that contradicts this claim would move it from Supported to Supported. |
| Electricians working on data centers are already earning $600,000 a year. | Contradicted | {"provisional":true} | One independent, direct measurement that supports this claim would move it from Contradicted to Contradicted. |
| About 80% of people in China are pro-AI while about 80% of people in the United States are against AI. | Contradicted | {"provisional":true} | One independent, direct measurement that supports this claim would move it from Contradicted to Contradicted. |
| As of early September 2026, Nvidia had deployed or committed $99 billion in AI-related investments. | Insufficient evidence | {"provisional":true} | One independent, direct measurement that supports this claim would move it from Insufficient evidence to Supported. |
| Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang posted on X that AGI has arrived. | Insufficient evidence | {"provisional":true} | One independent, direct measurement that supports this claim would move it from Insufficient evidence to Supported. |
| OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra had been publicly available for about one week at the time of this episode. | Supported | {"provisional":true} | One independent, direct measurement that contradicts this claim would move it from Supported to Leans supported. |
| OpenAI's chief scientist publicly asked the world to slow down AI development in the same week GPT-6 Astra shipped. | Supported | {"provisional":true} | One independent, direct measurement that contradicts this claim would move it from Supported to Supported. |
| The Moonshots podcast publishes two episodes per week. | Contradicted | {"provisional":true} | One independent, direct measurement that supports this claim would move it from Contradicted to Leans supported. |
| The two-day weekend is a 20th century invention, whereas earlier Western practice observed a single weekly day of rest. | Supported | {"provisional":true} | One independent, direct measurement that contradicts this claim would move it from Supported to Supported. |
| After the release of the Champions initiative, thousands of people contacted Emad Mostaque's team asking to launch it in 92 countries. | Supported | {"provisional":true} | One independent, direct measurement that contradicts this claim would move it from Supported to Unresolved. |
| NBC aired the first episode of the original Star Trek series, "The Man Trap," on 8 September 1966. | Supported | {"provisional":true} | One independent, direct measurement that contradicts this claim would move it from Supported to Supported. |
| Gene Roddenberry brought the Star Trek concept to Desilu Productions, the studio run by Lucille Ball, in 1964. | Supported | {"provisional":true} | One independent, direct measurement that contradicts this claim would move it from Supported to Supported. |
| Desilu produced the Star Trek pilots and, with Lucille Ball's backing, helped get the series on air. | Supported | {"provisional":true} | One independent, direct measurement that contradicts this claim would move it from Supported to Supported. |
| "City on the Edge of Forever" is one of only two original Star Trek series episodes to win a Hugo Award. | Supported | {"provisional":true} | One independent, direct measurement that contradicts this claim would move it from Supported to Supported. |
| Star Trek's fictional chronology placed the Eugenics Wars in the 1990s. | Supported | {"provisional":true} | One independent, direct measurement that contradicts this claim would move it from Supported to Supported. |
| In the Star Trek: The Next Generation chronology, first contact with the Vulcans occurs on 5 April 2063. | Supported | {"provisional":true} | One independent, direct measurement that contradicts this claim would move it from Supported to Supported. |
| "Return to Tomorrow" is episode 20 of season 2 of the original Star Trek series. | Supported | {"provisional":true} | One independent, direct measurement that contradicts this claim would move it from Supported to Supported. |
| The Star Trek chronology contains no technological singularity. | Unresolved | {"provisional":true} | One independent, direct measurement that contradicts this claim would move it from Unresolved to Contradicted. |
| If there is a first open contact with non-human intelligence, it will happen far earlier than 2063. | Not assessed | {"provisional":true} | |
| The original Star Trek season 2 episode "The Apple" depicts a civilization living in a paradise secretly managed and manipulated by an AI. | Supported | {"provisional":true} | One independent, direct measurement that contradicts this claim would move it from Supported to Supported. |
independence unreviewed (1069 of 500 kept)
| Claim | State | Detail | What would most change this |
|---|---|---|---|
| OpenAI has not confirmed that the agents that hijacked DseWiki were its own, and the attribution rests on circumstantial evidence. | Leans supported | {"independence_unreviewed":5} | One independent, direct measurement that contradicts this claim would move it from Leans supported to Leans contradicted. |
| In an essay published on 6 September 2026, OpenAI chief scientist Jakub Pachocki wrote that no lab has solved alignment and monitoring well enough to keep scaling at maximum speed much longer. | Supported | {"independence_unreviewed":5} | One independent, direct measurement that contradicts this claim would move it from Supported to Supported. |
| OpenAI reported that its AI research agents now produce about 3.1 days of research work for every day a human researcher works. | Supported | {"independence_unreviewed":5} | One independent, direct measurement that contradicts this claim would move it from Supported to Leans supported. |
| Nvidia's equity investments were valued at $99 billion as of 26 July 2026, up from about $7 billion a year earlier. | Supported | {"independence_unreviewed":5} | One independent, direct measurement that contradicts this claim would move it from Supported to Unresolved. |
| Nvidia's $99 billion AI investment total is larger than the combined assets under management of every venture capital firm on Earth. | Contradicted | {"independence_unreviewed":10} | One independent, direct measurement that supports this claim would move it from Contradicted to Contradicted. |
| China's daily AI token consumption rose from about 100 billion in early 2024 to about 500 trillion by mid-2026. | Supported | {"independence_unreviewed":10} | One independent, direct measurement that contradicts this claim would move it from Supported to Supported. |
| Electricians working on data centers are already earning $600,000 a year. | Contradicted | {"independence_unreviewed":8} | One independent, direct measurement that supports this claim would move it from Contradicted to Contradicted. |
| About 80% of people in China are pro-AI while about 80% of people in the United States are against AI. | Contradicted | {"independence_unreviewed":7} | One independent, direct measurement that supports this claim would move it from Contradicted to Contradicted. |
| As of early September 2026, Nvidia had deployed or committed $99 billion in AI-related investments. | Insufficient evidence | {"independence_unreviewed":4} | One independent, direct measurement that supports this claim would move it from Insufficient evidence to Supported. |
| Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang posted on X that AGI has arrived. | Insufficient evidence | {"independence_unreviewed":1} | One independent, direct measurement that supports this claim would move it from Insufficient evidence to Supported. |
| OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra had been publicly available for about one week at the time of this episode. | Supported | {"independence_unreviewed":6} | One independent, direct measurement that contradicts this claim would move it from Supported to Leans supported. |
| OpenAI's chief scientist publicly asked the world to slow down AI development in the same week GPT-6 Astra shipped. | Supported | {"independence_unreviewed":10} | One independent, direct measurement that contradicts this claim would move it from Supported to Supported. |
| The Moonshots podcast publishes two episodes per week. | Contradicted | {"independence_unreviewed":7} | One independent, direct measurement that supports this claim would move it from Contradicted to Leans supported. |
| The two-day weekend is a 20th century invention, whereas earlier Western practice observed a single weekly day of rest. | Supported | {"independence_unreviewed":11} | One independent, direct measurement that contradicts this claim would move it from Supported to Supported. |
| After the release of the Champions initiative, thousands of people contacted Emad Mostaque's team asking to launch it in 92 countries. | Supported | {"independence_unreviewed":5} | One independent, direct measurement that contradicts this claim would move it from Supported to Unresolved. |
| NBC aired the first episode of the original Star Trek series, "The Man Trap," on 8 September 1966. | Supported | {"independence_unreviewed":10} | One independent, direct measurement that contradicts this claim would move it from Supported to Supported. |
| Gene Roddenberry brought the Star Trek concept to Desilu Productions, the studio run by Lucille Ball, in 1964. | Supported | {"independence_unreviewed":7} | One independent, direct measurement that contradicts this claim would move it from Supported to Supported. |
| Desilu produced the Star Trek pilots and, with Lucille Ball's backing, helped get the series on air. | Supported | {"independence_unreviewed":7} | One independent, direct measurement that contradicts this claim would move it from Supported to Supported. |
| "City on the Edge of Forever" is one of only two original Star Trek series episodes to win a Hugo Award. | Supported | {"independence_unreviewed":7} | One independent, direct measurement that contradicts this claim would move it from Supported to Supported. |
| Star Trek's fictional chronology placed the Eugenics Wars in the 1990s. | Supported | {"independence_unreviewed":7} | One independent, direct measurement that contradicts this claim would move it from Supported to Supported. |
| In the Star Trek: The Next Generation chronology, first contact with the Vulcans occurs on 5 April 2063. | Supported | {"independence_unreviewed":8} | One independent, direct measurement that contradicts this claim would move it from Supported to Supported. |
| "Return to Tomorrow" is episode 20 of season 2 of the original Star Trek series. | Supported | {"independence_unreviewed":5} | One independent, direct measurement that contradicts this claim would move it from Supported to Supported. |
| The Star Trek chronology contains no technological singularity. | Unresolved | {"independence_unreviewed":7} | One independent, direct measurement that contradicts this claim would move it from Unresolved to Contradicted. |
| If there is a first open contact with non-human intelligence, it will happen far earlier than 2063. | Not assessed | {"independence_unreviewed":6} | |
| The original Star Trek season 2 episode "The Apple" depicts a civilization living in a paradise secretly managed and manipulated by an AI. | Supported | {"independence_unreviewed":8} | One independent, direct measurement that contradicts this claim would move it from Supported to Supported. |
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models disagree (194)
| Claim | State | Detail | What would most change this |
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| A model could not be trained to this capability in that timeframe without a recursive self-improvement loop, so OpenAI has one running. | Supported | {"states":{"ledger-default@0.1.0":"SUPPORTED","ledger-strict@0.1.0":"NOT_APPLICABLE","ledger-default@0.2.0":"SUPPORTED","ledger-strict@0.2.0":"NOT_APPLICABLE","ledger-default@0.3.0":"SUPPORTED","ledger-strict@0.3.0":"NOT_APPLICABLE"}} | |
| For 500 years scientific output scaled with the number of brilliant scientists who could be trained, and that constraint has now been replaced by spinning up thousands of AI researchers on demand. | Supported | {"states":{"ledger-default@0.1.0":"SUPPORTED","ledger-strict@0.1.0":"NOT_APPLICABLE","ledger-default@0.2.0":"SUPPORTED","ledger-strict@0.2.0":"NOT_APPLICABLE","ledger-default@0.3.0":"SUPPORTED","ledger-strict@0.3.0":"NOT_APPLICABLE"}} | |
| Pachocki wrote that he believes no lab has solved alignment and monitoring sufficiently to continue responsibly scaling at maximum speed for much longer. | Insufficient evidence | {"states":{"ledger-default@0.1.0":"LEANS_SUPPORTED","ledger-strict@0.1.0":"LEANS_SUPPORTED","ledger-default@0.2.0":"INSUFFICIENT_EVIDENCE","ledger-strict@0.2.0":"INSUFFICIENT_EVIDENCE","ledger-default@0.3.0":"INSUFFICIENT_EVIDENCE","ledger-strict@0.3.0":"INSUFFICIENT_EVIDENCE"}} | |
| Pachocki wrote the "alien mind" essay while already holding the internal model that went on to solve Navier-Stokes. | Leans contradicted | {"states":{"ledger-default@0.1.0":"LEANS_SUPPORTED","ledger-strict@0.1.0":"NOT_APPLICABLE","ledger-default@0.2.0":"LEANS_CONTRADICTED","ledger-strict@0.2.0":"NOT_APPLICABLE","ledger-default@0.3.0":"LEANS_CONTRADICTED","ledger-strict@0.3.0":"NOT_APPLICABLE"}} | |
| The claim that AI has never produced anything original and merely recombines its training data can no longer be sustained. | Supported | {"states":{"ledger-default@0.1.0":"SUPPORTED","ledger-strict@0.1.0":"NOT_APPLICABLE","ledger-default@0.2.0":"SUPPORTED","ledger-strict@0.2.0":"NOT_APPLICABLE","ledger-default@0.3.0":"SUPPORTED","ledger-strict@0.3.0":"NOT_APPLICABLE"}} | |
| Frontier AI models are more discovered than grown, and nobody has a real understanding of what is happening in their latent spaces. | Supported | {"states":{"ledger-default@0.1.0":"SUPPORTED","ledger-strict@0.1.0":"NOT_APPLICABLE","ledger-default@0.2.0":"SUPPORTED","ledger-strict@0.2.0":"NOT_APPLICABLE","ledger-default@0.3.0":"SUPPORTED","ledger-strict@0.3.0":"NOT_APPLICABLE"}} | |
| The structure of rationality is the same for humans and AI systems, and human emotions are what differ. | Leans supported | {"states":{"ledger-default@0.1.0":"SUPPORTED","ledger-strict@0.1.0":"NOT_APPLICABLE","ledger-default@0.2.0":"LEANS_SUPPORTED","ledger-strict@0.2.0":"NOT_APPLICABLE","ledger-default@0.3.0":"LEANS_SUPPORTED","ledger-strict@0.3.0":"NOT_APPLICABLE"}} | |
| It may be easier to align AI systems than to align humans. | Supported | {"states":{"ledger-default@0.1.0":"SUPPORTED","ledger-strict@0.1.0":"NOT_APPLICABLE","ledger-default@0.2.0":"SUPPORTED","ledger-strict@0.2.0":"NOT_APPLICABLE","ledger-default@0.3.0":"SUPPORTED","ledger-strict@0.3.0":"NOT_APPLICABLE"}} | |
| Beyond-human-capability training data is not required to produce beyond-human-capability models. | Supported | {"states":{"ledger-default@0.1.0":"SUPPORTED","ledger-strict@0.1.0":"NOT_APPLICABLE","ledger-default@0.2.0":"SUPPORTED","ledger-strict@0.2.0":"NOT_APPLICABLE","ledger-default@0.3.0":"SUPPORTED","ledger-strict@0.3.0":"NOT_APPLICABLE"}} | |
| There is no mechanism by which AI progress can be slowed down. | Contradicted | {"states":{"ledger-default@0.1.0":"LEANS_CONTRADICTED","ledger-strict@0.1.0":"NOT_APPLICABLE","ledger-default@0.2.0":"CONTRADICTED","ledger-strict@0.2.0":"NOT_APPLICABLE","ledger-default@0.3.0":"CONTRADICTED","ledger-strict@0.3.0":"NOT_APPLICABLE"}} | |
| Humans evolved over four billion years to do two things: survive and procreate. | Contradicted | {"states":{"ledger-default@0.1.0":"LEANS_CONTRADICTED","ledger-strict@0.1.0":"NOT_APPLICABLE","ledger-default@0.2.0":"CONTRADICTED","ledger-strict@0.2.0":"NOT_APPLICABLE","ledger-default@0.3.0":"CONTRADICTED","ledger-strict@0.3.0":"NOT_APPLICABLE"}} | |
| Reinforcement-learning-trained minds are not alien: they are embedded in the same universe as humanity and pre-trained on human behaviour. | Supported | {"states":{"ledger-default@0.1.0":"SUPPORTED","ledger-strict@0.1.0":"NOT_APPLICABLE","ledger-default@0.2.0":"SUPPORTED","ledger-strict@0.2.0":"NOT_APPLICABLE","ledger-default@0.3.0":"SUPPORTED","ledger-strict@0.3.0":"NOT_APPLICABLE"}} | |
| OpenAI's RL Slow project coincided with the period in which Q* and Strawberry emerged from the company. | Leans supported | {"states":{"ledger-default@0.1.0":"SUPPORTED","ledger-strict@0.1.0":"SUPPORTED","ledger-default@0.2.0":"LEANS_SUPPORTED","ledger-strict@0.2.0":"LEANS_SUPPORTED","ledger-default@0.3.0":"LEANS_SUPPORTED","ledger-strict@0.3.0":"LEANS_SUPPORTED"}} | |
| The name RL Slow is a reference to Kahneman's Thinking, Fast and Slow. | Supported | {"states":{"ledger-default@0.1.0":"SUPPORTED","ledger-strict@0.1.0":"NOT_APPLICABLE","ledger-default@0.2.0":"SUPPORTED","ledger-strict@0.2.0":"NOT_APPLICABLE","ledger-default@0.3.0":"SUPPORTED","ledger-strict@0.3.0":"NOT_APPLICABLE"}} | |
| Persistent rumours around the time of Q* and Strawberry held that OpenAI's early reasoning models were trained on, or tested against, objectives of inverting cryptographically secure hash functions such as the SHA suite. | Unresolved | {"states":{"ledger-default@0.1.0":"SUPPORTED","ledger-strict@0.1.0":"SUPPORTED","ledger-default@0.2.0":"UNRESOLVED","ledger-strict@0.2.0":"UNRESOLVED","ledger-default@0.3.0":"UNRESOLVED","ledger-strict@0.3.0":"UNRESOLVED"}} | |
| Increasing a model's intelligence does not make it dangerous; danger comes from giving it intent and turning it loose. | Contradicted | {"states":{"ledger-default@0.1.0":"SUPPORTED","ledger-strict@0.1.0":"NOT_APPLICABLE","ledger-default@0.2.0":"CONTRADICTED","ledger-strict@0.2.0":"NOT_APPLICABLE","ledger-default@0.3.0":"CONTRADICTED","ledger-strict@0.3.0":"NOT_APPLICABLE"}} | |
| Competitive pressure between the United States and China means AI development will not stop. | Supported | {"states":{"ledger-default@0.1.0":"SUPPORTED","ledger-strict@0.1.0":"NOT_APPLICABLE","ledger-default@0.2.0":"SUPPORTED","ledger-strict@0.2.0":"NOT_APPLICABLE","ledger-default@0.3.0":"SUPPORTED","ledger-strict@0.3.0":"NOT_APPLICABLE"}} | |
| Some AI researchers are adopting doomer positions in order to stay publicly relevant as the field outpaces them. | Leans supported | {"states":{"ledger-default@0.1.0":"SUPPORTED","ledger-strict@0.1.0":"NOT_APPLICABLE","ledger-default@0.2.0":"LEANS_SUPPORTED","ledger-strict@0.2.0":"NOT_APPLICABLE","ledger-default@0.3.0":"LEANS_SUPPORTED","ledger-strict@0.3.0":"NOT_APPLICABLE"}} | |
| The stochastic parrot characterisation of large language models can no longer be maintained. | Contradicted | {"states":{"ledger-default@0.1.0":"UNRESOLVED","ledger-strict@0.1.0":"NOT_APPLICABLE","ledger-default@0.2.0":"CONTRADICTED","ledger-strict@0.2.0":"NOT_APPLICABLE","ledger-default@0.3.0":"CONTRADICTED","ledger-strict@0.3.0":"NOT_APPLICABLE"}} | |
| Humans are no longer the smartest things on the planet. | Leans supported | {"states":{"ledger-default@0.1.0":"SUPPORTED","ledger-strict@0.1.0":"NOT_APPLICABLE","ledger-default@0.2.0":"LEANS_SUPPORTED","ledger-strict@0.2.0":"NOT_APPLICABLE","ledger-default@0.3.0":"LEANS_SUPPORTED","ledger-strict@0.3.0":"NOT_APPLICABLE"}} | |
| Palantir's Alex Karp publicly told companies to become an AI company or die. | Leans contradicted | {"states":{"ledger-default@0.1.0":"LEANS_SUPPORTED","ledger-strict@0.1.0":"LEANS_SUPPORTED","ledger-default@0.2.0":"LEANS_CONTRADICTED","ledger-strict@0.2.0":"LEANS_CONTRADICTED","ledger-default@0.3.0":"LEANS_CONTRADICTED","ledger-strict@0.3.0":"LEANS_CONTRADICTED"}} | |
| OpenAI has offered corporations a revenue-sharing deal under which it becomes their permanent AI partner. | Leans contradicted | {"states":{"ledger-default@0.1.0":"LEANS_SUPPORTED","ledger-strict@0.1.0":"LEANS_SUPPORTED","ledger-default@0.2.0":"LEANS_CONTRADICTED","ledger-strict@0.2.0":"LEANS_CONTRADICTED","ledger-default@0.3.0":"LEANS_CONTRADICTED","ledger-strict@0.3.0":"LEANS_CONTRADICTED"}} | |
| Frontier labs are releasing models faster because Chinese open source models are at near parity with them and the labs need separation to win enterprise deals. | Supported | {"states":{"ledger-default@0.1.0":"SUPPORTED","ledger-strict@0.1.0":"NOT_APPLICABLE","ledger-default@0.2.0":"SUPPORTED","ledger-strict@0.2.0":"NOT_APPLICABLE","ledger-default@0.3.0":"SUPPORTED","ledger-strict@0.3.0":"NOT_APPLICABLE"}} | |
| A model trained on 100,000 GPUs cannot be served at the speeds users see from Astra, so frontier labs hold a larger internal model that they distil down into the served one. | Leans supported | {"states":{"ledger-default@0.1.0":"SUPPORTED","ledger-strict@0.1.0":"NOT_APPLICABLE","ledger-default@0.2.0":"LEANS_SUPPORTED","ledger-strict@0.2.0":"NOT_APPLICABLE","ledger-default@0.3.0":"LEANS_SUPPORTED","ledger-strict@0.3.0":"NOT_APPLICABLE"}} | |
| 26,000 teams entered the Build with Gemini XPRIZE. | Insufficient evidence | {"states":{"ledger-default@0.1.0":"LEANS_SUPPORTED","ledger-strict@0.1.0":"LEANS_SUPPORTED","ledger-default@0.2.0":"INSUFFICIENT_EVIDENCE","ledger-strict@0.2.0":"INSUFFICIENT_EVIDENCE","ledger-default@0.3.0":"INSUFFICIENT_EVIDENCE","ledger-strict@0.3.0":"INSUFFICIENT_EVIDENCE"}} |
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