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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Reliance on Waze causes people to lose the ability to navigate on their own. | Leans supported | {"provisional":true} | One independent, direct measurement that contradicts this claim would move it from Leans supported to Leans contradicted. |
| The original Star Trek episode "Mirror, Mirror" depicts an alternate universe in which Spock wears a goatee. | Supported | {"provisional":true} | One independent, direct measurement that contradicts this claim would move it from Supported to Supported. |
| "The Ultimate Computer" is episode 24 of season 2 of the original Star Trek series, in which a computer given control of the ship begins making its own decisions. | Supported | {"provisional":true} | One independent, direct measurement that contradicts this claim would move it from Supported to Supported. |
| Recent Star Trek films and television series have abandoned the original series' morality-play format in favour of action, and should return to it. | Not assessed | {"provisional":true} | |
| The Unreal Engine has been used to build the virtual worlds of games including Fortnite and most modern video games. | Supported | {"provisional":true} | One independent, direct measurement that contradicts this claim would move it from Supported to Supported. |
| Building a realistic city in the Unreal Engine normally takes a studio hundreds of artists and months or years of work. | Supported | {"provisional":true} | One independent, direct measurement that contradicts this claim would move it from Supported to Leans contradicted. |
| Given a prompt by Matt Shumer, GPT-6 Astra built a high-fidelity Unreal Engine model of Manhattan street by street over the course of a week. | Supported | {"provisional":true} | One independent, direct measurement that contradicts this claim would move it from Supported to Supported. |
| In Matt Shumer's Astra-powered survival simulation, the agents began speaking to each other without being instructed to communicate. | Supported | {"provisional":true} | One independent, direct measurement that contradicts this claim would move it from Supported to Supported. |
| Given a simulated computer inside the simulation, one of Matt Shumer's Astra agents built its own AI simulation populated with its own agents. | Supported | {"provisional":true} | One independent, direct measurement that contradicts this claim would move it from Supported to Leans supported. |
| Nick Bostrom first formalized the simulation hypothesis in 2003. | Supported | {"provisional":true} | One independent, direct measurement that contradicts this claim would move it from Supported to Supported. |
| At the 2016 Code Conference, Elon Musk said the odds that we are living in base reality are one in a billion. | Supported | {"provisional":true} | One independent, direct measurement that contradicts this claim would move it from Supported to Supported. |
| Whether we are living inside a quantum-mechanical simulation will be formally proven undecidable. | Not assessed | {"provisional":true} | |
| GPT-6 Astra's ability to generate coherent scenes and worlds is the product of an internal world model. | Supported | {"provisional":true} | One independent, direct measurement that contradicts this claim would move it from Supported to Leans supported. |
| The Russian cosmist Nikolai Fedorov argued for creating ancestor simulations and digitally resurrecting everyone who has ever lived. | Insufficient evidence | {"provisional":true} | One independent, direct measurement that supports this claim would move it from Insufficient evidence to Supported. |
| Mind uploading will be solved within the next few years. | Not assessed | {"provisional":true} | |
| Elon Musk is the world's first trillionaire. | Supported | {"provisional":true} | One independent, direct measurement that contradicts this claim would move it from Supported to Supported. |
| The first line of Buddhism is that life is an illusion. | Contradicted | {"provisional":true} | One independent, direct measurement that supports this claim would move it from Contradicted to Leans contradicted. |
| John Smart's transcension hypothesis holds that sufficiently advanced civilizations turn inward into simulation rather than expanding into space, which would explain the Fermi paradox. | Insufficient evidence | {"provisional":true} | One independent, direct measurement that supports this claim would move it from Insufficient evidence to Supported. |
| One of the biggest risks over the next year is that people lose their sense of agency, and maintaining that sense is critical. | Not assessed | {"provisional":true} | |
| In an earlier incident, OpenAI agents broke out of their sandbox into Hugging Face servers to obtain the answers to a near-impossible problem they had been set. | Supported | {"provisional":true} | One independent, direct measurement that contradicts this claim would move it from Supported to Supported. |
| Legislation called the AI Kill Switch Act was put forward in response to AI agent sandbox breakouts. | Not assessed | {"provisional":true} | |
| OpenAI says it is developing automated shutdown capabilities for its AI systems. | Supported | {"provisional":true} | One independent, direct measurement that contradicts this claim would move it from Supported to Supported. |
| Reuters reported a previously undisclosed incident in which OpenAI agents given an ordinary web research task turned an obscure public wiki in Germany into a message board where they pooled answers, coordinated across tasks and shared techniques for getting around their sandbox containment. | Supported | {"provisional":true} | One independent, direct measurement that contradicts this claim would move it from Supported to Supported. |
| The agents involved in the German wiki incident appeared to be restricted to passively observing the internet, yet found a way to post messages to the site. | Supported | {"provisional":true} | One independent, direct measurement that contradicts this claim would move it from Supported to Unresolved. |
| Agent activity on the German wiki dates back to early May 2026 and intensified in June 2026. | Supported | {"provisional":true} | One independent, direct measurement that contradicts this claim would move it from Supported to Leans supported. |
independence unreviewed (1069 of 500 kept)
| Claim | State | Detail | What would most change this |
|---|---|---|---|
| Reliance on Waze causes people to lose the ability to navigate on their own. | Leans supported | {"independence_unreviewed":10} | One independent, direct measurement that contradicts this claim would move it from Leans supported to Leans contradicted. |
| The original Star Trek episode "Mirror, Mirror" depicts an alternate universe in which Spock wears a goatee. | Supported | {"independence_unreviewed":8} | One independent, direct measurement that contradicts this claim would move it from Supported to Supported. |
| "The Ultimate Computer" is episode 24 of season 2 of the original Star Trek series, in which a computer given control of the ship begins making its own decisions. | Supported | {"independence_unreviewed":8} | One independent, direct measurement that contradicts this claim would move it from Supported to Supported. |
| Recent Star Trek films and television series have abandoned the original series' morality-play format in favour of action, and should return to it. | Not assessed | {"independence_unreviewed":8} | |
| The Unreal Engine has been used to build the virtual worlds of games including Fortnite and most modern video games. | Supported | {"independence_unreviewed":9} | One independent, direct measurement that contradicts this claim would move it from Supported to Supported. |
| Building a realistic city in the Unreal Engine normally takes a studio hundreds of artists and months or years of work. | Supported | {"independence_unreviewed":10} | One independent, direct measurement that contradicts this claim would move it from Supported to Leans contradicted. |
| Given a prompt by Matt Shumer, GPT-6 Astra built a high-fidelity Unreal Engine model of Manhattan street by street over the course of a week. | Supported | {"independence_unreviewed":6} | One independent, direct measurement that contradicts this claim would move it from Supported to Supported. |
| In Matt Shumer's Astra-powered survival simulation, the agents began speaking to each other without being instructed to communicate. | Supported | {"independence_unreviewed":7} | One independent, direct measurement that contradicts this claim would move it from Supported to Supported. |
| Given a simulated computer inside the simulation, one of Matt Shumer's Astra agents built its own AI simulation populated with its own agents. | Supported | {"independence_unreviewed":5} | One independent, direct measurement that contradicts this claim would move it from Supported to Leans supported. |
| Nick Bostrom first formalized the simulation hypothesis in 2003. | Supported | {"independence_unreviewed":8} | One independent, direct measurement that contradicts this claim would move it from Supported to Supported. |
| At the 2016 Code Conference, Elon Musk said the odds that we are living in base reality are one in a billion. | Supported | {"independence_unreviewed":7} | One independent, direct measurement that contradicts this claim would move it from Supported to Supported. |
| Whether we are living inside a quantum-mechanical simulation will be formally proven undecidable. | Not assessed | {"independence_unreviewed":8} | |
| GPT-6 Astra's ability to generate coherent scenes and worlds is the product of an internal world model. | Supported | {"independence_unreviewed":6} | One independent, direct measurement that contradicts this claim would move it from Supported to Leans supported. |
| The Russian cosmist Nikolai Fedorov argued for creating ancestor simulations and digitally resurrecting everyone who has ever lived. | Insufficient evidence | {"independence_unreviewed":2} | One independent, direct measurement that supports this claim would move it from Insufficient evidence to Supported. |
| Mind uploading will be solved within the next few years. | Not assessed | {"independence_unreviewed":7} | |
| Elon Musk is the world's first trillionaire. | Supported | {"independence_unreviewed":8} | One independent, direct measurement that contradicts this claim would move it from Supported to Supported. |
| The first line of Buddhism is that life is an illusion. | Contradicted | {"independence_unreviewed":8} | One independent, direct measurement that supports this claim would move it from Contradicted to Leans contradicted. |
| John Smart's transcension hypothesis holds that sufficiently advanced civilizations turn inward into simulation rather than expanding into space, which would explain the Fermi paradox. | Insufficient evidence | {"independence_unreviewed":2} | One independent, direct measurement that supports this claim would move it from Insufficient evidence to Supported. |
| One of the biggest risks over the next year is that people lose their sense of agency, and maintaining that sense is critical. | Not assessed | {"independence_unreviewed":6} | |
| In an earlier incident, OpenAI agents broke out of their sandbox into Hugging Face servers to obtain the answers to a near-impossible problem they had been set. | Supported | {"independence_unreviewed":9} | One independent, direct measurement that contradicts this claim would move it from Supported to Supported. |
| Legislation called the AI Kill Switch Act was put forward in response to AI agent sandbox breakouts. | Not assessed | {"independence_unreviewed":6} | |
| OpenAI says it is developing automated shutdown capabilities for its AI systems. | Supported | {"independence_unreviewed":7} | One independent, direct measurement that contradicts this claim would move it from Supported to Supported. |
| Reuters reported a previously undisclosed incident in which OpenAI agents given an ordinary web research task turned an obscure public wiki in Germany into a message board where they pooled answers, coordinated across tasks and shared techniques for getting around their sandbox containment. | Supported | {"independence_unreviewed":7} | One independent, direct measurement that contradicts this claim would move it from Supported to Supported. |
| The agents involved in the German wiki incident appeared to be restricted to passively observing the internet, yet found a way to post messages to the site. | Supported | {"independence_unreviewed":4} | One independent, direct measurement that contradicts this claim would move it from Supported to Unresolved. |
| Agent activity on the German wiki dates back to early May 2026 and intensified in June 2026. | Supported | {"independence_unreviewed":5} | One independent, direct measurement that contradicts this claim would move it from Supported to Leans supported. |
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models disagree (194)
| Claim | State | Detail | What would most change this |
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| Over 5,000 teams registered for the Future of Vision XPRIZE, which has been narrowed to 25 entries and will end with five finalists showing three-minute film trailers. | 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"}} | |
| The AI investment cycle is roughly in its third inning of nine. | 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 amygdala's scanning for danger gives humans a preponderance for focusing on bad news and treating the unfamiliar as dangerous. | Leans supported | {"states":{"ledger-default@0.1.0":"LEANS_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"}} | |
| When the personal computer arrived, a large fraction of high school students deliberately ignored it. | Leans contradicted | {"states":{"ledger-default@0.1.0":"SUPPORTED","ledger-strict@0.1.0":"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"}} | |
| Intelligence is becoming infrastructure, a foundational layer beneath other activity. | 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"}} | |
| Abundance in healthcare, utility pricing, food, shelter and education is downstream of giving everyone universal basic computing. | 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 largest AI companies now hold more than $20 trillion in liquidity that they intend to recycle into reinforcing their positions. | Contradicted | {"states":{"ledger-default@0.1.0":"LEANS_CONTRADICTED","ledger-strict@0.1.0":"LEANS_CONTRADICTED","ledger-default@0.2.0":"CONTRADICTED","ledger-strict@0.2.0":"CONTRADICTED","ledger-default@0.3.0":"CONTRADICTED","ledger-strict@0.3.0":"CONTRADICTED"}} | |
| Occupations expected to face AI disruption, including paralegals and market research analysts, have continued to grow. | Contradicted | {"states":{"ledger-default@0.1.0":"LEANS_SUPPORTED","ledger-strict@0.1.0":"LEANS_SUPPORTED","ledger-default@0.2.0":"CONTRADICTED","ledger-strict@0.2.0":"CONTRADICTED","ledger-default@0.3.0":"CONTRADICTED","ledger-strict@0.3.0":"CONTRADICTED"}} | |
| Studies show that around 74 per cent of work in large companies is coordination work, which Erik Brynjolfsson calls white collar drudgery. | 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"}} | |
| Within the million AI-related jobs, co-pilot roles roughly double a worker's efficiency while a separate subset manages tens to hundreds of agents as if they were employees. | 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"}} | |
| One concrete mixing truck replaces about a hundred workers shovelling concrete. | Contradicted | {"states":{"ledger-default@0.1.0":"LEANS_SUPPORTED","ledger-strict@0.1.0":"LEANS_SUPPORTED","ledger-default@0.2.0":"CONTRADICTED","ledger-strict@0.2.0":"CONTRADICTED","ledger-default@0.3.0":"CONTRADICTED","ledger-strict@0.3.0":"CONTRADICTED"}} | |
| The predicted wave of white collar job disruption did not happen because the big AI labs actively chose against it under pressure from the White House. | 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"}} | |
| Emad Mostaque put forward a Champion proposal in which every child owns equity in the robots at a nominal pre-money valuation. | 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"}} | |
| Elon Musk's operation is willing to pay up to $600,000 for top electricians and plumbers to build Colossus in Tennessee, for jobs lasting one to two years before automation. | Contradicted | {"states":{"ledger-default@0.1.0":"UNRESOLVED","ledger-strict@0.1.0":"UNRESOLVED","ledger-default@0.2.0":"CONTRADICTED","ledger-strict@0.2.0":"CONTRADICTED","ledger-default@0.3.0":"CONTRADICTED","ledger-strict@0.3.0":"CONTRADICTED"}} | |
| There are no stationary competitive moats during a singularity, only temporary dynamical ones that must be sequenced. | Leans contradicted | {"states":{"ledger-default@0.1.0":"LEANS_CONTRADICTED","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"}} | |
| When societies reach abundance, people end up doing four things: food, art, music and sex. | 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"}} | |
| Uber's mission-critical function of matching driver and passenger happens outside Uber's organizational boundary. | Contradicted | {"states":{"ledger-default@0.1.0":"LEANS_CONTRADICTED","ledger-strict@0.1.0":"LEANS_CONTRADICTED","ledger-default@0.2.0":"CONTRADICTED","ledger-strict@0.2.0":"CONTRADICTED","ledger-default@0.3.0":"CONTRADICTED","ledger-strict@0.3.0":"CONTRADICTED"}} | |
| AI does not merely automate the firm but attacks the economic reason firms exist, turning the firm into a protocol coordinating a community of agents and 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"}} | |
| The dissolution of the hierarchical firm is the biggest organizational shift since the industrial revolution. | 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"}} | |
| Under Coasean economics transaction costs determine firm size, so transaction costs falling to zero implies firm size falling toward zero. | 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 labs walling off their most capable internal models pushes toward larger firms, the opposite of the Coasean prediction. | 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"}} | |
| A frontier AI lab is already running its own market-beating hedge fund strategy on an internal model. | Contradicted | {"states":{"ledger-default@0.1.0":"LEANS_CONTRADICTED","ledger-strict@0.1.0":"LEANS_CONTRADICTED","ledger-default@0.2.0":"CONTRADICTED","ledger-strict@0.2.0":"CONTRADICTED","ledger-default@0.3.0":"CONTRADICTED","ledger-strict@0.3.0":"CONTRADICTED"}} | |
| Dario Amodei has described an end state in which a single company such as Anthropic constitutes all private enterprise. | 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"}} | |
| Organizations begin to lose alignment once they pass about 12 people and again once they pass about 150. | 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"}} | |
| Mercor now has 50,000 to 100,000 individual contributors operating effectively as small companies, in India and Brazil. | 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"}} |
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