THE VOIGHT-KAMPFF TEST FOR MAN, MACHINE, & BIG TECH.
DATA • CONVERSATIONS • SIGNALS • HUMANS • MACHINES
In 1982, Blade Runner imagined a future where the machines slipped their guardrails and a runner was sent to bring back the truth. That future arrived — not as fiction, but as an industry: trillion-dollar bets, machines that answer, power grids straining under the build. The film asked whether machines could pass for human. Our question is smaller, and harder: which claims about them can pass for true. Token Runner keeps the receipts — accountability for the ones that can, and the ones that can't. Read it. Question it. Walk it.
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Public vs Experts. Data: Pew Research, 2025, as published in Stanford HAI, AI Index Report 2026, figure 9.2.1. Values as published. Licensed CC BY-ND 4.0. The table and its date
Jobs: Public vs Experts. Data: Pew Research, 2025, as published in Stanford HAI, AI Index Report 2026, figure 9.2.4. Values as published. Licensed CC BY-ND 4.0. The table and its date
Trust in Government. Data: Ipsos, 2025, as published in Stanford HAI, AI Index Report 2026, figure 9.3.1. Values as published. Licensed CC BY-ND 4.0. The table and its date
#10Lex FridmanPodcast host, Lex Fridman Podcast
#37Dylan PatelFounder, chief executive and chief analyst, SemiAnalysis
#43Ben ThompsonFounder and author, Stratechery
#44Dwarkesh PatelHost, Dwarkesh Podcast#72Yannic KilcherCo-founder and chief technology officer, DeepJudge; YouTuberAll 30 in Society on Replicants →
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Debt by Year. Source: SEC XBRL companyfacts, 10-Q and 10-K cash-flow lines. Adapted by Token Runner: filtered and added up for this chart. The table, its licence and its date
CapEx vs Revenue. Source: SEC filings: each company's annual 10-K, from SEC's XBRL company facts. Adapted by Token Runner: filtered and added up for this chart. The table, its licence and its date
Layoffs. Source: Layoffs.fyi, the AI layoffs list (https://layoffs.fyi/ai-layoffs/). Adapted by Token Runner: filtered and added up for this chart. The table, its licence and its date
#14Bill GatesChair, Gates Foundation
#18Masayoshi SonFounder, chairman and chief executive, SoftBank Group
#20Jeff BezosFounder of Amazon; co-chief executive of Prometheus
#25Marc AndreessenCo-founder and general partner, Andreessen Horowitz
#28Peter ThielCo-founder and partner, Founders FundAll 37 in Economics on Replicants →
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Chip Owners, Chips by Designer. Source: Epoch AI, AI Chip Owners. Adapted by Token Runner: filtered and added up for this chart. The table, its licence and its date
CoWoS Wafers. Source: Epoch AI, AI Chip Components. Adapted by Token Runner: filtered and added up for this chart. The table, its licence and its date
#3Jensen HuangFounder, president and chief executive, NVIDIA
#5Satya NadellaChairman and chief executive, Microsoft
#9Sundar PichaiChief executive of Google and Alphabet
#15Tim CookExecutive chairman, Apple
#17Larry EllisonExecutive chairman and chief technology officer, OracleAll 66 in Industry on Replicants →
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China vs Rest. Source: Epoch AI, AI chip sales (https://epoch.ai/data/). Adapted by Token Runner: filtered and added up for this chart. The table, its licence and its date
Export Rules. Source: Federal Register, Bureau of Industry and Security rules and proposed rules (https://www.federalregister.gov/). Adapted by Token Runner: filtered and added up for this chart. The table, its licence and its date
#6Donald TrumpPresident of the United States
#16Xi JinpingGeneral Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party and President of China
#31Daniela AmodeiCo-founder, president and board chair, Anthropic
#33JD VanceVice President of the United States
#34David SacksWhite House AI/crypto czar orbitAll 39 in Politics on Replicants →
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Accessibility. Source: Epoch AI, Notable AI Models. Adapted by Token Runner: filtered and added up for this chart. The table, its licence and its date
By Release Date, By Organisation. Source: Epoch AI, Frontier AI Models. Adapted by Token Runner: filtered and added up for this chart. The table, its licence and its date
#1Elon MuskChief executive of SpaceX (which now includes xAI) and Tesla
#2Sam AltmanChief executive, OpenAI
#4Mark ZuckerbergChairman and chief executive, Meta
#7Demis HassabisCo-founder and chair of Google DeepMind; chief scientist of Alphabet
#8Dario AmodeiCo-founder and chief executive, AnthropicAll 52 in Technology on Replicants →
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Electricity Price. Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Electricity Data Browser / API v2, retail sales: average price, US, by sector. Adapted by Token Runner: filtered and added up for this chart. The table, its licence and its date
Power by State, Price by State. Source: Epoch AI, the data centres file (https://epoch.ai/data/data_centers/data_centers.csv); U.S. Energy Information Administration for the state prices. Adapted by Token Runner: filtered and added up for this chart. The table, its licence and its date
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Compute vs Capability, Open vs Closed. Source: Epoch AI, Epoch Capabilities Index (https://epoch.ai/data/). Adapted by Token Runner: filtered and added up for this chart. The table, its licence and its date
AI in Maths. Source: Epoch AI, AI acknowledgment trends in mathematics preprints (https://epoch.ai/data/). Adapted by Token Runner: filtered and added up for this chart. The table, its licence and its date
#7Demis HassabisCo-founder and chair of Google DeepMind; chief scientist of Alphabet
#12Yann LeCunFounder and executive chairman, AMI Labs; professor, NYU
#13Geoffrey HintonUniversity Professor Emeritus, University of Toronto
#29Yoshua BengioCo-president and scientific director, LawZero; professor, Université de Montréal
#49Chris OlahCo-founder and interpretability research lead, AnthropicAll 14 in Science on Replicants →