SOCIETY

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The filings, reports and news stories behind the Society pieces, as each piece cites them. A document two pieces cite shows twice.

• Fortune · 17 September 2026 · "the decline in hires is the primary cause" · a Census working-paper c the source ↗cited in AI layoffs: the Dossier
• Washington Monthly · 29 May 2026 · "Entry-level roles are becoming more like mid-level roles." · Strada Institu the source ↗cited in AI layoffs: the Dossier
• City AM · 23 June 2025 · "The Big Four are looking at AI very seriously to replicate junior work" the source ↗cited in AI layoffs: the Dossier
• Stanford Digital Economy Lab, the Canaries authors · "We do not see widespread, economy-wide job displacement associated with AI." the source ↗cited in AI layoffs: the Dossier
• UCLA Luskin, the September 2026 study · "young grads did not see higher summer unemployment rates" the source ↗cited in AI layoffs: the Dossier
• CBS, 60 Minutes · 16 November 2025 · the Anthropic chief executive on half of entry-level white-collar jobs the source ↗cited in AI layoffs: the Dossier
• CNN · 30 May 2025 · the Anthropic chief executive tells Anderson Cooper the alarm needs raising the source ↗cited in AI layoffs: the Dossier
• Slate · 20 April 2026 · "this is genuinely the worst tech job market in decades" · Apricitas Econo the source ↗cited in AI layoffs: the Dossier
• AP · December 2025 · "Tyson owes this community a debt." · Lexington's city manager the source ↗cited in AI layoffs: the Dossier
• NPR Weekend Edition · 10 January 2026 · "There's going to be a very large exodus of our immigrant population" · the source ↗cited in AI layoffs: the Dossier
• 60 Minutes Australia · 11 October 2026 · older job seekers screened out by AI hiring systems the source ↗cited in AI layoffs: the Dossier
• Comedy Central, The Daily Show · 5 October 2026 · Jon Stewart on AI's promised "better future" (7.3 million views on 29 Oct the source ↗cited in AI layoffs: the Dossier
• CBS, 60 Minutes · 4 October 2026 · "Humans are teaching AI how to do their jobs" the source ↗cited in AI layoffs: the Dossier
• More Perfect Union · 28 May 2025 · driverless trucks in Texas and the drivers (4.2 million views) the source ↗cited in AI layoffs: the Dossier
• Quartz · 29 July 2026 · "a brilliant public relations move" · Sean McGarvey, president, North Ameri the source ↗cited in AI layoffs: the Dossier
• Quartz via Yahoo · 15 July 2026 · "The percentage is huge because the starting point was almost zero." the source ↗cited in AI layoffs: the Dossier
• CNN Business · 23 January 2026 · a translator: "essentially expected to dig your own professional grave" the source ↗cited in AI layoffs: the Dossier
• The Register · 22 August 2025 · Commonwealth Bank of Australia reverses its chatbot cut the source ↗cited in AI layoffs: the Dossier
• Tom's Hardware · 9 February 2026 · the HBR executive survey: cutting in anticipation the source ↗cited in AI layoffs: the Dossier
• Anthropic Economic Index, worker retraining review, 12 August 2026 · "Job training programs have small impacts." the source ↗cited in AI layoffs: the Dossier
• Mike Rowe, 24 January 2026 · "AI is coming for the coders. It's not yet coming for the welders" the source ↗cited in AI layoffs: the Dossier
• A Life After Layoff · 5 February 2026 · "Don't Switch Careers Into The Trades!" "Trades aren't easy to get into" the source ↗cited in AI layoffs: the Dossier
• Bloomberg Television · 8 March 2026 · "Why Data Centers Are Creating a Blue-Collar Gold Rush" the source ↗cited in AI layoffs: the Dossier
• BBC Global · 20 July 2026 · "The AI Layoff Trap": a tax on firing (1.72 million views) the source ↗cited in AI layoffs: the Dossier
• St. Louis Fed · 23 March 2026 · unemployment insurance eligibility, replacement and take-up by state the source ↗cited in AI layoffs: the Dossier
• Commonwealth Fund · October 2025 · expiring premium tax credits and about 340,000 jobs the source ↗cited in AI layoffs: the Dossier
• Geoffrey Hinton, via the FT, about 5 September 2025 · a universal income "won't deal with human dignity" the source ↗cited in AI layoffs: the Dossier
• PBS News Hour · 25 June 2026 · Gina Raimondo on displacement as a states-and-companies problem the source ↗cited in AI layoffs: the Dossier
• @washingtonpost · 30 September 2026 · 27,660 views as read · young workers and graduates reconsidering caree the source ↗cited in AI layoffs: the Dossier
• @PsyPost · 2 October 2026 · 1,389 views as read · federal data show recent graduates did not face a g the source ↗cited in AI layoffs: the Dossier
• @Entrepreneur · 20 September 2026 · 6,550 views as read · computer-science graduates and the New York Fed the source ↗cited in AI layoffs: the Dossier
• Sen. Josh Hawley, 5 November 2025 · "Artificial intelligence is already replacing American workers" the source ↗cited in AI layoffs: the Dossier
• Sen. Jim Banks, chair of the Senate HELP employment subcommittee, 29 July 2026, on mass displacement · "we haven't seen that begin to happen." the source ↗cited in AI layoffs: the Dossier
• Rep. Steven Horsford, 19 June 2026 · "entire livelihoods are being erased." the source ↗cited in AI layoffs: the Dossier
• Regulation (EU) 2024/1689, Article 26(7) · employers "shall inform workers' representatives and the affected workers" the source ↗cited in AI layoffs: the Dossier
• Senate HELP employment subcommittee · 29 July 2026 · the chair's opening statement: the predictions have not materialised the source ↗cited in AI layoffs: the Dossier
• House Education and Workforce · 15 April 2026 · "Building an AI-Ready America": a witness says AI is changing tasks rather the source ↗cited in AI layoffs: the Dossier
• Roll Call · 23 October 2026 · Wyden's bills to tax data centres and aid displaced workers (announced; the source ↗cited in AI layoffs: the Dossier
• Axios · 5 November 2025 · the Hawley–Warner disclosure bill the source ↗cited in AI layoffs: the Dossier
• CNA Insider · 1 May 2026 · workers in India and the Philippines train their AI replacements (2.16 millio the source ↗cited in AI layoffs: the Dossier
• Al Jazeera, Inside Story · 23 October 2026 · "Why is the UK at the forefront of AI-driven job cuts?" the source ↗cited in AI layoffs: the Dossier
• Microsoft, "The latest in our company transformation", 6 July 2026 · "the roles eliminated today are not being replaced by AI" the source ↗cited in AI layoffs: the Dossier
• Amazon, Q3 2025 earnings call · 30 October 2025 · the chief executive: "not even really AI-driven, not right now, at least the source ↗cited in AI layoffs: the Dossier
• Fortune · 26 August 2025 · Stanford's "Canaries" paper on entry-level workers the source ↗cited in AI layoffs: the Dossier
• Challenger, Gray & Christmas · 4 June 2026 · the May report: AI-cited cuts at their highest monthly total the source ↗cited in AI layoffs: the Dossier
• Fortune · 7 January 2026 · Oxford Economics calls AI layoffs "corporate fiction" the source ↗cited in AI layoffs: the Dossier
• Fortune · 22 October 2026 · Goldman: fear hit "a fever pitch this spring" and has cooled; the displa the source ↗cited in AI layoffs: the Dossier
• The ILO's working papers 140 (May 2025), 166 with the World Bank (March 2026) and 96 (2023)cited in The world: rich countries first
• The World Bank's World Development Report 2026cited in The world: rich countries first
• IBPAP's July 2026 roadmap revisioncited in The world: rich countries first
• Business Today on TCS the source ↗cited in The world: rich countries first
• IANS, 25 April 2026cited in The world: rich countries first
• Nasscom 2026cited in The world: rich countries first
• The Central Statistics Office of Ireland, Q1 2026cited in The world: rich countries first
• ESRI Report 16cited in The world: rich countries first
• CNA Insider, 1 May 2026 the source ↗cited in The world: rich countries first
• IBTimes UK on Adzuna's July 2026 figures the source ↗cited in The world: rich countries first
• The Korea Times and Yonhap on the Bank of Korea the source ↗cited in The world: rich countries first
• Fortune on the IMF the source ↗cited in The world: rich countries first
• Caixin and China Daily on the Hangzhou courts the source ↗cited in The world: rich countries first
• The EU AI Act, Article 26(7)cited in The world: rich countries first
• ABC News (Australia), 8 July 2026 the source ↗cited in The world: rich countries first
• Al Jazeera Inside Story, 23 October 2026 the source ↗cited in The world: rich countries first
• AP via Yahoo on Lufthansa the source ↗cited in The world: rich countries first
• ITV on Barclayscited in The world: rich countries first
• The Star and Nikkei on Mizuhocited in The world: rich countries first
• State layoff notices and the tracker, in our sites tablecited in The world: rich countries first
• Pew, June 2026, and its 36-country survey the source ↗cited in What people fear, and the words they use
• Gallup, May 2026 the source ↗cited in What people fear, and the words they use
• Challenger, Gray & Christmas, May, July and September 2026 the source ↗cited in What people fear, and the words they use
• Our own count of posts on X, in English, not counting repostscited in What people fear, and the words they use
• Fortune on the Greenhouse survey the source ↗cited in What people fear, and the words they use
• AP from Beijing, via Fortune the source ↗cited in What people fear, and the words they use
• Fortune on SAG-AFTRA the source ↗cited in What people fear, and the words they use
• Fortune on Salesforce the source ↗cited in What people fear, and the words they use
• TIME, 30 April 2026 the source ↗cited in What people fear, and the words they use
• NBC, 5 August 2025 the source ↗cited in What people fear, and the words they use
• ILO working paper 96cited in What people fear, and the words they use
• Microsoft and HubSpot, as our piece on what the companies say sets outcited in What people fear, and the words they use
• Axios, 28 May 2025cited in What people fear, and the words they use
• The US Bureau of Labor Statistics, AI exposure categories of 27 August 2026, its employment projections and its electricians page the source ↗cited in The plumber and the programmer
• Anthropic's labour-market research and its Economic Index worker-retraining review of 12 August 2026 the source ↗cited in The plumber and the programmer
• Frey and Llanos-Paredes, Oxford, and the translator's account, via CNN Business, 23 January 2026 the source ↗cited in The plumber and the programmer
• The Society of Authors survey, 2024cited in The plumber and the programmer
• Our own count of posts on X, in English, not counting repostscited in The plumber and the programmer
• Fortune, 5 July 2025, on Aspencited in The plumber and the programmer
• Quartz, 29 July 2026 the source ↗cited in The plumber and the programmer
• Quartz via Yahoo, 15 July 2026 the source ↗cited in The plumber and the programmer
• Fox Business on Mike Rowe, 24 January 2026 the source ↗cited in The plumber and the programmer
• Epoch AI, "Can AI automate Epoch?", 8 October 2026, CC BY 4.0 the source ↗cited in The plumber and the programmer
• Anthropic's data is one of the five measures the Bureau combines and is cited here as suchcited in The plumber and the programmer
• The Stanford Digital Economy Lab's Canaries paper as Fortune reported it, 26 August 2025, and its August 2026 update the source ↗cited in The bottom rung
• Fortune, 17 September 2026, on the Census working papers the source ↗cited in The bottom rung
• Washington Monthly, 29 May 2026, for the Strada Institute the source ↗cited in The bottom rung
• City AM, 23 June 2025, on the accounting firms the source ↗cited in The bottom rung
• The New York Fed's table for recent graduates, released 4 February 2026cited in The bottom rung
• Anthropic, "How employment is changing at Anthropic", 16 October 2026 the source ↗cited in The bottom rung
• CBS 60 Minutes, 16 November 2025, and CNN, 30 May 2025 the source ↗cited in The bottom rung
• UCLA Luskin the source ↗cited in The bottom rung
• Federal data on recent graduates as PsyPost reported it the source ↗cited in The bottom rung
• Brookings with the Yale Budget Lab, 1 October 2025cited in The bottom rung
• Indeed Hiring Lab via Yahoo, 8 July 2026 the source ↗cited in The bottom rung
• Pew, 18 August 2026cited in The bottom rung
• Challenger, Gray & Christmas monthly reports, 2026cited in The bottom rung
• The University of Nebraska-Lincoln, December 2025,cited in The bottom rung
• AP via Yahoo on Lexington the source ↗cited in The bottom rung
• The Bureau of Labor Statistics job openings survey, the information sectorcited in The bottom rung
• The New York Fed, Liberty Street Economics, June 2026 the source ↗cited in The bottom rung
• New York bill A9581-Bcited in The bottom rung
• Fortune · 17 September 2026 · "the decline in hires is the primary cause" · a Census working-paper c the source ↗cited in Counted low.
• Washington Monthly · 29 May 2026 · "Entry-level roles are becoming more like mid-level roles." · Strada Institu the source ↗cited in Counted low.
• City AM · 23 June 2025 · "The Big Four are looking at AI very seriously to replicate junior work" the source ↗cited in Counted low.
• Stanford Digital Economy Lab, the Canaries authors · "We do not see widespread, economy-wide job displacement associated with AI." the source ↗cited in Counted low.
• UCLA Luskin, the September 2026 study · "young grads did not see higher summer unemployment rates" the source ↗cited in Counted low.
• CBS, 60 Minutes · 16 November 2025 · the Anthropic chief executive on half of entry-level white-collar jobs the source ↗cited in Counted low.
• CNN · 30 May 2025 · the Anthropic chief executive tells Anderson Cooper the alarm needs raising the source ↗cited in Counted low.
• Slate · 20 April 2026 · "this is genuinely the worst tech job market in decades" · Apricitas Econo the source ↗cited in Counted low.
• AP · December 2025 · "Tyson owes this community a debt." · Lexington's city manager the source ↗cited in Counted low.
• NPR Weekend Edition · 10 January 2026 · "There's going to be a very large exodus of our immigrant population" · the source ↗cited in Counted low.
• 60 Minutes Australia · 11 October 2026 · older job seekers screened out by AI hiring systems the source ↗cited in Counted low.
• CBS, 60 Minutes · 4 October 2026 · "Humans are teaching AI how to do their jobs" the source ↗cited in Counted low.
• More Perfect Union · 28 May 2025 · driverless trucks in Texas and the drivers (4.2 million views) the source ↗cited in Counted low.
• Quartz · 29 July 2026 · "a brilliant public relations move" · Sean McGarvey, president, North Ameri the source ↗cited in Counted low.
• Quartz via Yahoo · 15 July 2026 · "The percentage is huge because the starting point was almost zero." the source ↗cited in Counted low.
• CNN Business · 23 January 2026 · a translator: "essentially expected to dig your own professional grave" the source ↗cited in Counted low.
• The Register · 22 August 2025 · Commonwealth Bank of Australia reverses its chatbot cut the source ↗cited in Counted low.
• Tom's Hardware · 9 February 2026 · the HBR executive survey: cutting in anticipation the source ↗cited in Counted low.
• Anthropic Economic Index, worker retraining review, 12 August 2026 · "Job training programs have small impacts." the source ↗cited in Counted low.
• Mike Rowe, 24 January 2026 · "AI is coming for the coders. It's not yet coming for the welders" the source ↗cited in Counted low.
• A Life After Layoff · 5 February 2026 · "Don't Switch Careers Into The Trades!" "Trades aren't easy to get into" the source ↗cited in Counted low.
• Bloomberg Television · 8 March 2026 · "Why Data Centers Are Creating a Blue-Collar Gold Rush" the source ↗cited in Counted low.
• Microsoft, "The latest in our company transformation", 6 July 2026 · "the roles eliminated today are not being replaced by AI" the source ↗cited in Counted low.
• Amazon, Q3 2025 earnings call · 30 October 2025 · the chief executive: "not even really AI-driven, not right now, at least the source ↗cited in Counted low.
• BBC Global · 20 July 2026 · "The AI Layoff Trap": a tax on firing (1.72 million views) the source ↗cited in Counted low.
• St. Louis Fed · 23 March 2026 · unemployment insurance eligibility, replacement and take-up by state the source ↗cited in Counted low.
• Commonwealth Fund · October 2025 · expiring premium tax credits and about 340,000 jobs the source ↗cited in Counted low.
• Geoffrey Hinton, via the FT, about 5 September 2025 · a universal income "won't deal with human dignity" the source ↗cited in Counted low.
• PBS News Hour · 25 June 2026 · Gina Raimondo on displacement as a states-and-companies problem the source ↗cited in Counted low.
• CNA Insider · 1 May 2026 · workers in India and the Philippines train their AI replacements (2.16 millio the source ↗cited in Counted low.
• Al Jazeera, Inside Story · 23 October 2026 · "Why is the UK at the forefront of AI-driven job cuts?" the source ↗cited in Counted low.
• Comedy Central, The Daily Show · 5 October 2026 · Jon Stewart on AI's promised "better future" (7.3 million views on 29 Oct the source ↗cited in Counted low.
• @washingtonpost · 30 September 2026 · 27,660 views as read · young workers and graduates reconsidering caree the source ↗cited in Counted low.
• @PsyPost · 2 October 2026 · 1,389 views as read · federal data show recent graduates did not face a g the source ↗cited in Counted low.
• @Entrepreneur · 20 September 2026 · 6,550 views as read · computer-science graduates and the New York Fed the source ↗cited in Counted low.
• Fortune · 26 August 2025 · Stanford's "Canaries" paper on entry-level workers the source ↗cited in Counted low.
• Challenger, Gray & Christmas · 4 June 2026 · the May report: AI-cited cuts at their highest monthly total the source ↗cited in Counted low.
• Fortune · 7 January 2026 · Oxford Economics calls AI layoffs "corporate fiction" the source ↗cited in Counted low.
• Fortune · 22 October 2026 · Goldman: fear hit "a fever pitch this spring" and has cooled; the displa the source ↗cited in Counted low.
• Sen. Josh Hawley, 5 November 2025 · "Artificial intelligence is already replacing American workers" the source ↗cited in Counted low.
• Sen. Jim Banks, chair of the Senate HELP employment subcommittee, 29 July 2026, on mass displacement · "we haven't seen that begin to happen." the source ↗cited in Counted low.
• Rep. Steven Horsford, 19 June 2026 · "entire livelihoods are being erased." the source ↗cited in Counted low.
• Regulation (EU) 2024/1689, Article 26(7) · employers "shall inform workers' representatives and the affected workers" the source ↗cited in Counted low.
• Senate HELP employment subcommittee · 29 July 2026 · the chair's opening statement: the predictions have not materialised the source ↗cited in Counted low.
• House Education and Workforce · 15 April 2026 · "Building an AI-Ready America": a witness says AI is changing tasks rather the source ↗cited in Counted low.
• Roll Call · 23 October 2026 · Wyden's bills to tax data centres and aid displaced workers (announced; the source ↗cited in Counted low.
• Axios · 5 November 2025 · the Hawley–Warner disclosure bill the source ↗cited in Counted low.
• Stanford Digital Economy Lab (Erik Brynjolfsson, Bharat Chandar and Ruyu Chen), "No Widespread Displacement, but the AI Employment Gap for Young Workers Has Widened to 19%", 12 August 2026, read at source and by Token Runner on 28 October 2026: "Employment among workers ages 22–25 in highly AI-exposed occupations now stands about 19% below where it would be if it had kept pace with employment among similarly aged workers in less-exposed occupations. Experienced workers show no comparable gap."; "the shortfall was 15% at the July 2025 data vintage and is 19% as of June 2026"; "These are descriptive patterns, not causal estimates of the effect of AI."; "The gaps between more- and less-exposed young workers shrink when we account for education."; "The estimated gaps are also larger in the ADP analysis sample than in national survey benchmarks."; footnote 1 on the levels. Token Runner's own table of the lab's figures. the source ↗cited in Two Answers
• Stanford Digital Economy Lab, "Canaries in the Coal Mine? Six Facts About the Recent Employment Effects of Artificial Intelligence", the August 2026 revision (the paper behind the page): payroll data from ADP "covering millions of U.S. workers through June 2026"; the analysis sample is between 3.5 and 5 million employees per month. the source ↗cited in Two Answers
• Stanford Digital Economy Lab, the Canaries Dashboard's composition download: the two most exposed quintiles of occupations held about two-thirds (66.2%) of the sample's employment in November 2022. the source ↗cited in Two Answers
• Stanford HAI, "Tracking AI's Real-Time Footprint On The Labor Market", 21 October 2026, read at source on 28 October 2026: "Dashboards created by Stanford HAI's Digital Economy Lab", so the same Stanford data by another measure: employment for 22- to 25-year-olds in software development and customer service "has dropped over 3% annually since ChatGPT's release in November 2022, with the decline sharpening in recent months to 4.4%". Not set against the 19%. the source ↗cited in Two Answers
• Yale Budget Lab, "Tracking the Impact of AI on the Labor Market", the update with September 2026 CPS data (14 October 2026), read at source on 28 October 2026 from the tracker's own text file: "does not provide clear evidence of labor market disruption associated with AI"; "the growth in unemployment of AI-exposed workers has tended to be elevated relative to growth for comparable unexposed workers since late 2022, and this is the case in the third quarter of 2026"; "These estimates are volatile and should be interpreted cautiously, particularly as they are not accompanied by other indications of labor market impacts." The tracker's data file (comparisons/unemployment-rate/data.csv on GitHub): Token Runner's own table, copied row for row. the source ↗cited in Two Answers
• Yale Budget Lab (Gimbel, Kendall and Nunn), "What We Do and Don't Know About How AI is Affecting the Labor Market", 7 May 2026: the comparison's exposed group is the top third of occupations by the lab's summary metric, the unexposed group the bottom third; the headline analysis is not age-restricted. the source ↗cited in Two Answers
• U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, the Current Population Survey: the government's monthly survey of households, the data behind Yale's comparison (BLS via IPUMS-CPS) (bls.gov answers 403 to a script; the same series is readable in the tracker's data.csv on GitHub, linked below). the source ↗cited in Two Answers
• The Budget Lab's tracker data, data.csv on GitHub (the unemployment-rate comparison the tracker draws; the same series bls.gov serves). the source ↗cited in Two Answers
• OpenAI's summary-judgment brief, In re OpenAI Copyright Litigation, SDNY 1:25-md-03143, Dkt 1983, p.8 (made public 17 September 2026). Read at source. the source ↗cited in The Training Admission
• Microsoft's brief, Dkt 1973, p.24. Read at source. the source ↗cited in The Training Admission
• The class plaintiffs' Statement of Undisputed Material Facts, Dkt 1987 (17 September 2026): the authors' assertions, ¶¶271, 276, 278, 312, 344, 370, 382, 384. Read at source. the source ↗cited in The Training Admission
• Judge Ona Wang's order of 24 November 2025 on the deletion of Books1 and Books2. Read at source. the source ↗cited in The Training Admission
• Bartz v. Anthropic, Judge William Alsup's summary-judgment order, Dkt 231 (23 June 2025), pp.3 and 18. The host refuses automated readers; the order was read at source on 28 October 2026. the source ↗cited in The Training Admission
• Bartz v. Anthropic, the settlement agreement, Dkt 363-3 (§10.6, no admission; ¶2.2, the destruction of files). Read at source. the source ↗cited in The Training Admission
• Bartz v. Anthropic, the order granting final approval, Dkt 680 (20 July 2026). Read at source. the source ↗cited in The Training Admission
• Entrepreneur Media v. Meta, discovery order, Dkt 874 (19 October 2026, Magistrate Judge Hixson). Read at source. the source ↗cited in The Training Admission
• Nazemian v. NVIDIA, Dkt 303 (5 May 2026, Judge Tigar). Read at source. the source ↗cited in The Training Admission
• TorrentFreak, quoting Nvidia's motion to dismiss of 29 January 2026. Read at source. the source ↗cited in The Training Admission
• The Authors Guild, 21 September 2026. Read at source. the source ↗cited in The Training Admission
• The Verge, 22 April 2026, with Meta's statement (spokesperson Tracy Clayton) and Andrew Bosworth's memo and reply as reported. Read at source. the source ↗cited in Teaching AI to Do Your Job
• BBC News, 23 April 2026, on Meta's memo planning to cut 10% of its workforce. Read at source. the source ↗cited in Teaching AI to Do Your Job
• BBC News, 3 June 2026: the staff petition of more than 1,500 signatures. Read at source. the source ↗cited in Teaching AI to Do Your Job
• WIRED, 14 May 2026, on the layoffs set for 20 May. Read at source. the source ↗cited in Teaching AI to Do Your Job
• WIRED, 22 June 2026, on the pause after some data was found accessible to more people than intended. Read at source. the source ↗cited in Teaching AI to Do Your Job
• Business Insider, June 2026, on the data exposure. Read at source. the source ↗cited in Teaching AI to Do Your Job
• Business Insider, 11 September 2026: the program still suspended, a return said to be optional, over 1,800 signatures. Read at source. the source ↗cited in Teaching AI to Do Your Job
• WIRED, 2025, on Google's 'super raters': $18 to $22 an hour via third-party contractors, $28 to $32 hired direct. Read at source. the source ↗cited in Teaching AI to Do Your Job
• Mercor's machine-learning listing, read 28 October 2026: 'Comparable machine learning projects have posted at $70 to $120 an hour' (a company figure). the source ↗cited in Teaching AI to Do Your Job
• Mercor's finance pool page, read 28 October 2026: listings 'from $60 to $180 an hour' (a company figure). the source ↗cited in Teaching AI to Do Your Job
• Mercor's blog, 8 May 2026: 'we pay out over $2 million every day to more than 30,000 weekly active contractors' (a company figure). the source ↗cited in Teaching AI to Do Your Job
• 60 Minutes, 4 October 2026, CBS's transcript: Brendan Foody and Daron Acemoglu; 'typical trainers can be paid anywhere from $20 to $200 an hour'. the source ↗cited in Teaching AI to Do Your Job
• 60 Minutes, 4 October 2026, the segment on YouTube: Foody at 4:33 to 4:47, Acemoglu at 11:56 to 12:12. the source ↗cited in Teaching AI to Do Your Job
• CNN, 17 February 2026, on experts in medicine, law and finance training AI. Read at source. the source ↗cited in Teaching AI to Do Your Job
• Conversations with Tyler, Brendan Foody. Read at source. the source ↗cited in Teaching AI to Do Your Job
• Business Insider, 13 September 2025, quoting xAI's email to its AI tutors. Read at source. the source ↗cited in Teaching AI to Do Your Job
• The Verge, September 2025: xAI laid off more than 500 people who trained its chatbot. Read at source. the source ↗cited in Teaching AI to Do Your Job
• LinkedIn, Jobs on the Rise 2026, 7 January 2026: the 25 fastest-growing US roles. Read at source. the source ↗cited in Teaching AI to Do Your Job
• Unitree, its X post of 21 October 2026 introducing the H2-X, read at source: 14,725,612 impressions and 2,915,305 video plays; the post's words: "Powerful performance to serve and guard you, with a maximum endurance of approximately 8 hours. Please use the robot safely and in a friendly manner." It does not say whether anyone was controlling the robot. The film, watched frame by frame: one car door visibly dented; a feet-first drop from a platform captioned '4 Meter High Platform', then a roll (no aerial flip is shown; the press says flip). the source ↗cited in The Stunt and the Stumble
• Unitree, the launch film on its own YouTube channel: 1,953,956 views as read 28 October 2026. The drop from the captioned platform is at about 14.5 to 18 s; the source ↗cited in The Stunt and the Stumble
• TechNode, 26 October 2026, on the demo of 22 October in Hangzhou: the robot tried a side flip and fell; "the right mechanical lower leg" detached; "Footage of the incident, recorded by attendees, quickly circulated"; the company "has yet to issue any official public response." the source ↗cited in The Stunt and the Stumble
• Global Times, 25 October 2026 (republished on the Hangzhou government site on 26 October); STATE MEDIA: published under the People's Daily, the organ of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, by People's Daily's own pages. Its report: reactions online were mixed; Unitree "didn't reply" when asked; "Unitree's shares rose 20 percent on October 23, closing at 624 yuan", which it attributes to the Beijing Daily. Reported here with no cause given. Republished on the Hangzhou government's site on 26 October 2026 (ehangzhou.gov.cn/2026-10/26/c_299453.htm). the source ↗cited in The Stunt and the Stumble
• The Hangzhou government's republication of the Global Times report, 26 October 2026. the source ↗cited in The Stunt and the Stumble
• People's Daily, its own About pages (en.people.cn/english/about/aboutus.html; the Chinese page): the publisher line for Global Times, read at source. the source ↗cited in The Stunt and the Stumble
• The Partido Popular's own X post (@ppopular) of 21 October 2026, 22:18 CEST: 1,383,910 video views as read on 28 October 2026 (2,362,272 impressions on 27 October). The video's likenesses and cloned voices are of real people linked to Spain's governing Socialists; no frame of it and none of its lines are reproduced here. The label as measured on 768x1344 frames (9:16): the full line about 1.6% of the frame's height, the capitals about 1.1%, semi-transparent, absent from the end card from 46.5 s. the source ↗cited in The Small Print
• Europa Press, 22 October 2026: more than 500,000 views on Instagram and more than 200,000 on TikTok (as reported; drawn at those floors). the source ↗cited in The Small Print
• El País, 22 October 2026: the party's video, its reach ('casi dos millones') and the people it depicts, as the paper reported it. the source ↗cited in The Small Print
• The Guardian, 23 October 2026: the video seen nearly 2 million times across platforms, and its English rendering of Óscar López's words, "It's very easy for anyone who isn't used to AI to confuse that video with reality." the source ↗cited in The Small Print
• Óscar López, Spain's digital minister, on TVE (RTVE, the state-owned public broadcaster), in his own words: "muy fácil que una persona confunda ese vídeo con una realidad" (RTVE, 23 October 2026). the source ↗cited in The Small Print
• Regulation (EU) 2024/1689, the AI Act, Article 50(4) and 50(5), in application since 2 August 2026: deployers of an AI system that generates or manipulates a deepfake "shall disclose that the content has been artificially generated or manipulated" … "in a clear and distinguishable manner"; where the content is evidently artistic, creative, satirical, fictional or analogous, the duty is limited to a disclosure that does not hamper the work. the source ↗cited in The Small Print
• El País, 23 October 2026: more than half a dozen lawyers it consulted ("más de media docena") said the free-speech and satire protections are wide enough to cover it; it did not say the video was 'not illegal'. No regulator or court has ruled on whether it is lawful (elpais.com refuses scripts; read through the search index and a syndicated copy that links to it). the source ↗cited in The Small Print
• Borja Sémper, Partido Popular, as elDiario.es reported him on 22 October 2026: "If there had been malicious intent to make people believe… we'd have a problem" (in Spanish, 'intención espuria'). the source ↗cited in The Small Print
• elDiario.es (Javier Lillo), 27 October 2026: the Audiencia Nacional refuses a related complaint against the party over the video, on jurisdiction and as a personal matter outside the judge's case; the judge's words: "no figuran entre los supuestos tasados atribuidos a la competencia de la Audiencia Nacional". No ruling on the video's lawfulness. the source ↗cited in The Small Print
• Corridor Crew, their own YouTube channel: the shirt's listing on screen, "…Egyptian Tribal Pattern Retro Linen Short-Sleeve Shirt", $30.99; "100% organic linen" is the presenter's phrase (1:08 to 1:12), never the listing's; "It's not linen… this is a polyester fabric." (2:01 to 2:07; the ellipsis stands for "Well, here's the thing. All I needed to see is how it's white there means"); "All the footage of their warehouses is AI generated, too." (2:20 to 2:22, a separate speaker turn); the robe's listing, "Men's Japanese Dragon Pattern Calligraphy And Painting Art Linen Long Kimono", $39.99 (about 3:00); "This is not organic linen." (4:31 to 4:34). Both listings carry a fabric panel naming organic linen, recycled nylon and recycled polyester; the seller on screen is Cottonwardrobe. the source ↗cited in The Slop Shop
• The Advertising Standards Authority (UK), ruling on WiggyDog, a paid-for Meta ad seen in January 2026, upheld (22 complaints), read at source: "the scenes in the video in the ad, which appeared to be of real and/or AI-generated puppies, also gave the impression that the product was highly realistic and lifelike"; "WiggyDog provided no evidence regarding the functionality and appearance of the toy."; "The ad must not appear again in the form complained of." the source ↗cited in The Slop Shop
• The ASA, ruling on Aquoxis, three ads (a YouTube pre-roll and two online display ads) seen in April 2026, upheld (5 complaints); the advertiser "did not respond to the ASA's enquiries": "we considered the product images included in ads (b) and (c) appeared to have been at least partially generated by artificial intelligence, and differed both from each other and from the product shown in ad (a)."; "The ad must not appear again in its current form." The ASA's own site describes upheld rulings as ones "where ads are banned". the source ↗cited in The Slop Shop
• The ASA, ruling on ShroomIQ, 22 April 2026, upheld on health claims (2 complaints), not on its pictures: the seller's own disclaimer called its product visuals "AI-generated representations used for illustrative and branding purposes only". the source ↗cited in The Slop Shop
• Our search of ftc.gov, 28 October 2026: no action found on AI-made product pictures specifically. The nearest: the Cox Media Group "Active Listening" orders (finalised 27 August 2026, $930,000; false claims for an AI ad service, not images) and Operation AI Comply (September 2024). Loeb & Loeb, 3 August 2026: "there's no case directly on point". Canada's Ad Standards (via Daily Hive): no "dedicated regulatory framework specifically for AI-generated advertising"; nothing found from the ACCC or a NAD decision. The pages: the Cox Media Group orders (ftc.gov, 27 August 2026), Operation AI Comply (ftc.gov, September 2024: ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2024/09/ftc-announces-crackdown-deceptive-ai-claims-schemes), and Loeb & Loeb's note (loeb.com, August 2026). the source ↗cited in The Slop Shop
• Last Week Tonight, "AI Slop" (June 2025), HBO's own captions at 3:23.4 to 3:26.7: "AI slop is basically the newest iteration of spam." the source ↗cited in The Slop Shop
• Loeb & Loeb, 'AI-generated advertising: when is disclosure required and when is it not enough', 3 August 2026: "there's no case directly on point". the source ↗cited in The Slop Shop
• 1X, its NEO page, read at source on 28 October 2026: $20,000 to own, or $499 a month, a $200 deposit, "US Deliveries start 2026"; "NEO works autonomously by default. For any chore it doesn't know, you can schedule a 1X Expert to guide it, helping NEO learn while getting the job done."; the Expert can "remotely supervise its actions at scheduled times". the source ↗cited in What a Home Robot Costs
• 1X, its factory post of 30 April 2026 (six months after the launch), read at source: "booked out our entire production capacity for the next year in just 5 days (10,000 NEOs)" (pre-orders on a $200 deposit, not sales); "Some of you will get your NEO this year, some will get them later."; "While the current NEOs coming off the line are being prioritized for our internal team to accelerate development and testing in homes, we are working around the clock to deliver NEO to your doorstep starting in 2026". No customer delivery confirmed at source to 28 October 2026; secondary reports of April shipments conflict with 1X's own post. the source ↗cited in What a Home Robot Costs
• Weave Robotics, its Isaac page, read at source: Isaac 1, $7,999 or $449 a month, a $250 deposit, "Deliveries to California begin in Fall 2026"; "teleoperation assistance when needed." (the maker's one page, its Isaac section) the source ↗cited in What a Home Robot Costs
• MarketWatch on Tau Robotics' cleaning service: $60 for two robots for one hour ($30 per robot-hour), invite-only, with the company's own line that its robots are operated by humans and AI (the article is paywalled; the readable copy beside it carries the same price). the source ↗cited in What a Home Robot Costs
• Core Matter, 20 October 2026, a visit to Tau Robotics' cleaning service in San Francisco: $60 for two robots for one hour, at $30 per robot-hour (a readable copy of the price MarketWatch reports). the source ↗cited in What a Home Robot Costs
• Tau, its own FAQ: "Are the robots fully autonomous?" "No, robots are operated by humans and AI." the source ↗cited in What a Home Robot Costs
• Bernt Børnich (1X), his reply to MKBHD on X, 29 October 2025, in full as written: "@MKBHD Just to clarify, all actions portrayed as AI in the video (text layovers from the AI planner) is 100% autonomous. We hope to ship a mostly fully autonomous robot in 2026, but chose to not promise anything that does not already works today. Hopefully breaking with the trend." (106,669 impressions on 28 October 2026.) the source ↗cited in What a Home Robot Costs
• Club for Growth, Petition for Waiver, FCC ECFS proceeding 02-278, filing 26110073991, received 31 August 2026: to reach cellphones "using an artificial or prerecorded voice—including an AI-generated voice—without obtaining prior express consent" (the petition's em dashes as filed). FCC Public Notice DA 26-940, 4 September 2026: comments 5 October, replies 19 October. the source ↗cited in Robocalls Before the Midterms
• Commissioner Anna Gomez's statement, 8 October 2026, that the waiver "would bring chaos so close to Election Day": the FCC's own release. the source ↗cited in Robocalls Before the Midterms
• David McIntosh, Club for Growth's president, that political speech deserves the same treatment as "package deliveries, bank accounts, and doctor's appointments", and the joint comment of consumer groups in opposition: Reuters, 7 October 2026, as carried by CNA. the source ↗cited in Robocalls Before the Midterms
• Senator Chuck Schumer's statement, that campaigns "could use their opponents' voice to send out a message that is, at best, disingenuous and, at worst, a blatant lie": Reuters, 19 October 2026, as carried by StreetInsider. the source ↗cited in Robocalls Before the Midterms
• Common Cause, 'Fighting AI robocalls ahead of the midterms', 7 October 2026: its own filing in opposition. the source ↗cited in Robocalls Before the Midterms
• An FCC spokesperson: the FCC has "zero plans" to act on the petition (Reuters, 19 October 2026, whose text has the typo 'to so'; Communications Daily, 21 October 2026, linked, carries 'zero plans to do so' and names the Center for Democracy and Technology, the Campaign Legal Center and EPIC among the commenters opposed). The FCC's 2024 ruling, FCC 24-17 (8 February 2024): an AI-generated voice is "artificial" under the TCPA, so such calls to cellphones need prior express consent. ECFS 02-278 re-checked 28 October 2026 about 02:47 JST: no order, grant or denial on the petition; the newest item an unrelated notice of 27 October (DA 26-1159). the source ↗cited in Robocalls Before the Midterms
• The FCC's declaratory ruling of 8 February 2024, FCC 24-17: an AI-generated voice is "artificial" under the TCPA. the source ↗cited in Robocalls Before the Midterms
• The New Hampshire case, each step from the document that states it: the calls of 21 January 2024 (the NH Department of Justice; the count, 5,000 to 25,000, is Nomorobo's estimate as the DOJ release quoted it); FCC 24-17, 8 February 2024; Lingo Telecom's $1 million civil penalty (the FCC's consent decree, 21 August 2024); the $6 million forfeiture against the consultant (FCC 24-104, 26 September 2024); the League of Women Voters' civil consent judgment for other defendants (29 May 2025); the consultant's acquittal on all 22 criminal counts (13 June 2025); a civil default judgment and injunction (US District Court for New Hampshire, 20 November 2025). Never 'convicted'. the source ↗cited in Robocalls Before the Midterms
• Public Citizen, 'Tracker: Legislation on Deepfakes in Elections', last updated 21 October 2026, counted at source: 31 states with an election-deepfake law in force (33 'Enacted' entries less Hawaii, struck down, and Massachusetts, sunset February 2025; Illinois, folded into an election omnibus in May 2026, not counted): AL AZ CA CO DE FL ID IN KY LA ME MD MI MN MS MT NV NH NM NY ND OR PA RI SD TN TX UT VT WA WI. Public Citizen's own headline of 13 May 2026 said 30. the source ↗cited in Robocalls Before the Midterms
• Louisiana Act 559 (HB 639, 2026 Regular Session), signed 29 May 2026, in force since 1 August 2026 (the legislature's bill history), R.S. 18:1463.1(D): an AI call in a public figure's voice must say so at the start. Tennessee Public Chapter 625 (effective 1 July 2026) and Vermont 17 V.S.A. § 2032 require a disclosure at the start and end of AI audio; neither text says 'call'; whether they reach calls is not established. the source ↗cited in Robocalls Before the Midterms
• The Mississippi attorney general's letter to the Colom campaign over AI-generated ads, October 2026 (video, not calls). the source ↗cited in Robocalls Before the Midterms
• PJM Interconnection, 14 July 2026, the 2028/29 Base Residual Auction: "more than 67 million people across 13 states and the District of Columbia"; "These most recent auctions were the first in PJM history in which the entire RTO fell short of the reliability requirement." Read at source. the source ↗cited in Who Gets the Power Plant
• PJM's auction reports: 2024/25 $28.92 per MW-day; 2025/26 $269.92; 2026/27 $329.17 (the cap; cleared 139 MW above the requirement); 2027/28 $333.44 (the cap; 6,517 MW short); 2028/29 $325 (the cap; 6,831 MW short). The cap is the FERC-approved price collar, set by PJM with the governors. the source ↗cited in Who Gets the Power Plant
• PJM's 2024/25 Base Residual Auction report ($28.92). the source ↗cited in Who Gets the Power Plant
• Monitoring Analytics, PJM's Independent Market Monitor, report of 28 July 2026: "of the $16.4B in capacity market charges, $6.3B was a result of data center load. This was 38.2 percent of the capacity market charges."; "$29.4B, or 46.2 percent of total capacity market charges over those four auctions"; data centres should "pay for their own capacity". Data-centre load in PJM's peak forecast, from its table: 7,927 MW (2025/26), 11,993, 17,071, 21,470 (2028/29). Estimates; PJM: "The total value does not equate to the total cost to load". the source ↗cited in Who Gets the Power Plant
• Governor Greg Abbott's letter of 3 August 2026: "ERCOT is currently considering approximately 474 gigawatts of requests to connect to the Texas grid. That is more than five times Texas' record peak electricity demand for ERCOT. Approximately 90 percent of the new power requests are data centers."; an audit "before any additional data centers are approved to move forward." Requests, never demand. ERCOT paused its Batch Zero study; the audit report's target date, 10 December 2026, as reported (Utility Dive). the source ↗cited in Who Gets the Power Plant
• ERCOT's market notice of 3 August 2026 (the Batch Zero pause) and its Senate panel of 29 July 2026 (the large-load figures, June 2026 data). the source ↗cited in Who Gets the Power Plant
• U.S. Energy Information Administration, Electric Power Monthly, Table 5.6.B (released 23 October 2026), average residential price, January to August 2026 against the same months of 2025, cents per kWh: the United States 18.19 against 17.03 (+6.8%); Pennsylvania 21.13 against 18.86 (+12.0%); Maryland 21.31 against 18.93 (+12.6%); Ohio 18.81 against 16.64 (+13.0%); Virginia 16.95 against 15.00 (+13.0%). The percentages are our arithmetic from EIA's two columns. West Virginia is +1.4%. the source ↗cited in Who Gets the Power Plant
• EIA, Short-Term Energy Outlook, 6 October 2026: residential prices shaped by weather, natural gas prices, grid upgrades and, in some regions, the capacity auctions; PJM wholesale prices forecast +41% in 2026, "the largest increase across all regions", "strongly influenced by natural gas prices and weather". EIA names no data-centre cause. the source ↗cited in Who Gets the Power Plant
• Microsoft, Brad Smith, 13 January 2026: "We'll pay our way to ensure our datacenters don't increase your electricity prices."; rates have risen "driven in part by several years of inflation, supply chain constraints, and long-overdue grid upgrades"; Microsoft will ask utilities "to set our rates high enough". the source ↗cited in Who Gets the Power Plant
• Constellation: the Crane Clean Energy Center (Three Mile Island Unit 1) restart, with a 20-year power purchase agreement with Microsoft, the power delivered to the grid; the 2027 target is a target (a FERC waiver of 1 June 2026). the source ↗cited in Who Gets the Power Plant
• Talen Energy's SEC exhibit, 11 June 2025: Amazon has signed for "1,920 megawatts of carbon-free nuclear power through 2042" from Susquehanna, ramping to full by 2032, delivered to the PJM grid; the front-of-the-meter move as reported, not established. the source ↗cited in Who Gets the Power Plant
• Utility Dive on ERCOT's data-centre audit and its target date. the source ↗cited in Who Gets the Power Plant
• Anthropic, 'How employment is changing at Anthropic', 16 October 2026, the web page: "By August interactive AI agent hours outnumbered employees' six to one." Read at source 28 October 2026. the source ↗cited in The Missing Junior
• Anthropic, 'How employment is changing at Anthropic', 16 October 2026, the full report (PDF): Figure 1 (the junior shares), Figure 2 (agent hours), the April 2026 survey, the measures for staff and the closing section, quoted above. Anthropic's own internal data, self-reported, not independently verified. Read at source 28 October 2026. the source ↗cited in The Missing Junior
• Anthropic, 'Labor market impacts of AI: A new measure and early evidence', 5 March 2026 (Current Population Survey data): "We find no systematic increase in unemployment for highly exposed workers since late 2022"; "a 14% drop in the job finding rate"; "just barely statistically significant"; "But there are several alternative interpretations." Read at source 28 October 2026. the source ↗cited in The Missing Junior
• Stanford Digital Economy Lab (Erik Brynjolfsson, Bharat Chandar and Ruyu Chen), 'No Widespread Displacement, but the AI Employment Gap for Young Workers Has Widened to 19%', 12 August 2026: "These are descriptive patterns, not causal estimates of the effect of AI." Read at source 28 October 2026. the source ↗cited in The Missing Junior
• Axios, 28 May 2025, its interview with Dario Amodei: Axios's own sentence, "AI could wipe out half of all entry-level white-collar jobs — and spike unemployment to 10-20% in the next one to five years, Amodei told us", a paraphrase, not his direct words. the source ↗cited in The Missing Junior
• Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, "AI Slop" (HBO), the show's own YouTube channel, uploaded 22 June 2025 (PT); 8,693,801 views as read on 28 October 2026 about 02:00 JST. At 3:23: "AI slop is basically the newest iteration of spam." the source ↗cited in Late Night's AI
• The Daily Show, Jon Stewart's monologue of 5 October 2026, the show's own YouTube channel; 7,271,843 views as read 28 October 2026. At 12:20 to 12:31, by the uploader's own captions: "Can you guys just stop fumfering around and just admit that if this works the way you say it will work, there aren't going to be that many jobs anymore." (the captions are in capitals; printed in sentence case, the words unchanged). The auto track has 'faffing'; the official en-US captions have 'fumfering'. the source ↗cited in Late Night's AI
• Saturday Night Live, "Weekend Update: Dario Amodei", the show's own YouTube channel, 26 September 2026; 1,685,558 views as read 28 October 2026. At 1:19, an impression of Anthropic's chief executive: "We do not condone what we are doing." An impression, not the man. Anthropic makes Claude. A disclosure: Token Runner is built with Claude. the source ↗cited in Late Night's AI
• Saturday Night Live, "Weekend Update: Mr. Wonderful", 10 October 2026; 2,098,761 views as read 28 October 2026. At 0:31 to 0:39: "All I want is to buy up 40,000 acres of God's untouched splendor and replace it with a very loud computer that steals your job." the source ↗cited in Late Night's AI
• Last Week Tonight, "AI Chatbots", 26 April 2026; 6,558,673 views as read 28 October 2026. At 0:04 to 0:11, by the uploader's own captions: "Our main story tonight concerns AI. It saves significant time writing emails, and all it costs us is everything else on Earth." the source ↗cited in Late Night's AI
• The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, "Can't Stop AI", 24 July 2025; 6,857,133 views as read 28 October 2026. The Late Show ended on 21 May 2026 (CBS's own press release), so its count stops there. (the whole upload, from the start) the source ↗cited in Late Night's AI
• The 39 segments: log of 27 October 2026 of the four shows' official YouTube channels (6 SNL, 18 The Daily Show, 2 Last Week Tonight, 13 The Late Show; 21 uploaded in 2026, 18 in 2025); each upload's view count and upload date re-read from its own watch page on 28 October 2026 about 02:00 JST (the figures in this record are the table's, at its frozen version); the primary target of each segment verified from the upload's own caption line: CEOs and companies 16, politics 8, slop 4, users 4, government 1, other 6; none unverified. the source ↗cited in Late Night's AI
• YouTube, "YouTube Music AI labels", blog.youtube, 14 October 2026, read at source: "Starting today, YouTube Music is rolling out labels to make it easier to see when a song was created primarily using generative AI. For example, this includes using a generative model to create the composition and vocals. These new music labels will also expand to the main YouTube app."; "you'll see a label directly on the player page". No date and no count for the rollout; nothing further from YouTube since 14 October. the source ↗cited in The Label That Isn't There
• Our check of nine official uploads by The Velvet Sundown, Breaking Rust and Xania Monet, acts the music press has reported as AI-made (Billboard, 24 October and 4 November 2025; USA Today/Tennessean, 12 November 2025): the youtube.com watch pages and music.youtube.com's public data, signed out, as read on 28 October 2026 about 02:31 JST: the label showed on none of the nine; the only "AI generated" text found was a viewer's comment; no positive control (no labelled track was found to test the method against); the YouTube Music app was not checked. Breaking Rust's "Livin' on Borrowed Time": 31,895,129 views. the source ↗cited in The Label That Isn't There
• The Velvet Sundown · Dust on the Wind (The Velvet Sundown - Topic), uploaded 2025-06-06; 543,502 views as read 28 October 2026 about 02:31 JST; AI label on the public web: no. the source ↗cited in The Label That Isn't There
• The Velvet Sundown · Let it Burn (The Velvet Sundown - Topic), uploaded 2025-06-19; 370,622 views as read 28 October 2026 about 02:31 JST; AI label on the public web: no. the source ↗cited in The Label That Isn't There
• Breaking Rust · Livin' on Borrowed Time (Breaking Rust - Topic), uploaded 2025-10-14; 31,895,129 views as read 28 October 2026 about 02:31 JST; AI label on the public web: no. the source ↗cited in The Label That Isn't There
• Breaking Rust · Walk My Walk (Official Audio) (Breaking Rust), uploaded 2025-11-14; 693,963 views as read 28 October 2026 about 02:31 JST; AI label on the public web: no. the source ↗cited in The Label That Isn't There
• Xania Monet · If Only You Knew (Life Lessons) (Xania Monet - Topic), uploaded 2025-09-23; 6,379,281 views as read 28 October 2026 about 02:31 JST; AI label on the public web: no. the source ↗cited in The Label That Isn't There
• Xania Monet · How Was I supposed to Know (Xania Monet - Topic), uploaded 2026-03-23; 449,705 views as read 28 October 2026 about 02:31 JST; AI label on the public web: no. the source ↗cited in The Label That Isn't There
• Xania Monet · Devil In Disguise (Xania Monet - Topic), uploaded 2026-10-20; 44,741 views as read 28 October 2026 about 02:31 JST; AI label on the public web: no. the source ↗cited in The Label That Isn't There
• Xania Monet · How Was I Supposed to Know (Lyrics) (Xania Monet), uploaded 2025-08-30; 11,633,288 views as read 28 October 2026 about 02:31 JST; AI label on the public web: no. the source ↗cited in The Label That Isn't There
• Xania Monet · Official Music Video (Xania Monet), uploaded 2025-11-05; 3,757,128 views as read 28 October 2026 about 02:31 JST; AI label on the public web: no. the source ↗cited in The Label That Isn't There
• Deezer newsroom, its own figures, read at source: April 2026, "almost 75,000" fully AI-generated tracks a day, "roughly 44%" of daily deliveries; July 2026, "nearly 90,000" a day, "more than 50%" of total daily deliveries on peak days (the June peak, "a monthly average of 90,000"); 13 October 2026, the same figures repeated, "data as of August 2026". Its detector is a product it sells; no independent audit found. the source ↗cited in The Label That Isn't There
• Spotify newsroom, "Prioritizing human artistry", 20 October 2026, read at source: "This year alone, we've taken more than 50 million slop and spam tracks out of recommendations." No AI-only figure; its heading "Keeping AI-generated slop and spam out of recommendations"; "AI detection technology in particular has limitations"; high-AI-probability tracks are "10 times more likely to fall below the threshold". Its 75 million figure is not used (whether new or cumulative is not established). the source ↗cited in The Label That Isn't There
• Rick Beato, "So It Begins.Is This A Real Band Or AI?", his own channel: the clips at 0:00 to 0:47 and 2:41 to 2:50, linked at the times. the source ↗cited in The Label That Isn't There
• Ed Newton-Rex on X, 20 October 2026, on Spotify's figures: "Why are they grouping together 'AI slop' and 'spam'? They seem to be very intentionally not giving a straight 'AI slop' number." the source ↗cited in The Label That Isn't There
• Billboard Bulletin, 24 October 2025 (PDF): The Velvet Sundown as an AI-generated act, as Billboard reported it. the source ↗cited in The Label That Isn't There
• Billboard, 4 November 2025: 'AI artists on the Billboard charts', Breaking Rust and Xania Monet as reported. the source ↗cited in The Label That Isn't There
• Kotaku (Zack Zwiezen), "Viral AI-Generated Comedian Steals Jokes And Is Rewarded With Millions Of Views", 5 October 2026, read at source on 28 October 2026: "Since the account started posting on September 11, barely three weeks ago, it's already garnered over 375,000 followers"; "75 videos"; "one stand-up clip hitting over 7 million views in just under two weeks"; "On October 3, comedian George Brett Olson shared a video comparing one of Sloan's jokes to an excerpt from his own performance". the source ↗cited in The Joke Thieves
• The Hollywood Reporter, 16 October 2026: Olson, in his own video of 3 October, "AI stole my joke and my outfit." and "The craziest thing is that there's no terms of service violation here."; Julia Jasunas, on Instagram, "So another AI bot just stole my joke.", about another AI account; Adam Mosseri, in a comment on Olson's post, "I don't think it's practical for us to try and ban AI content from the platform" and, if an AI creator is "ripping off content wholesale, it would be good for us to work out what we can do about that." the source ↗cited in The Joke Thieves
• WIRED, 16 October 2026: eight comics whose material turned up on accounts of this kind; the AI version of Olson's joke changed the punchline; the account left "sorry, won't happen again" on Olson's page before deleting its video and many other Reels (no date given); Jasunas says Meta told her the account she reported for impersonation did not violate its rules; Meta's on-record line: "Our policies are pretty clear around this stuff, and Adam's comment speaks for itself." the source ↗cited in The Joke Thieves
• KompasTekno, 8 October 2026: on 7 October all of the account's posts were gone while the account stayed live, with about 377,000 followers. Reports differ on whether the account itself was removed. the source ↗cited in The Joke Thieves
• Meta, Community Standards, "Authentic Identity Representation": accounts may not "Impersonate another person or entity by: Using their image(s), name, or likeness with the aim to deceive others", read at source 28 October 2026. the source ↗cited in The Joke Thieves
• TikTok, Community Guidelines, "Integrity and Authenticity" (released 25 August 2026, effective 24 September 2026), read at source on 28 October 2026: "we require creators to label AI-generated or significantly edited content that shows realistic-looking scenes or people. Unlabeled content may be removed, restricted, or labeled by our team, depending on the harm it could cause." the source ↗cited in The Joke Thieves
• YouTube, channel monetization policies, "inauthentic content" (renamed from "repetitious content" on 15 July 2025), read at source on 28 October 2026: not eligible for monetisation, "AI-generated content made with generic or unoriginal templates giving the impression of mass production without adding the creator's original, authentic insights or perspective". A pay rule, not a removal rule. the source ↗cited in The Joke Thieves
• Adam Mosseri on Threads: "We already let people make copyright claims against content" (Instagram's copyright route, in his own words). the source ↗cited in The Joke Thieves
• Anthropic, 'Anthropic Public Benefit Fund', 18 October 2026: "Subject to stockholder approval, 5% of Anthropic's shares will be committed today"; "roughly 20% of Anthropic shares will be dedicated to the public good"; "rather than a 501(c)(3)"; "None of the Anthropic equity held by the LLC will be used for lobbying or political giving, in the US or abroad."; "It is common practice for tech companies to offer escalating compensation awards to their executives. We are instead directing that equity to the public benefit."; "Anthropic has already committed $200 million to studying and addressing this issue". Read at source 28 October 2026. the source ↗cited in Five Percent, If
• Anthropic's Form S-1, filed with the SEC 26 October 2026 (accession 0001628280-26-067168): the Initial Public Benefit Issuance (846,840,960 shares of Class N common stock, 5% of fully diluted shares as of June 30, 2026, to Anthropic Public Benefit Fund, LLC, "our wholly owned subsidiary"); the milestone framework; the donation matching program ($541 million of expenses in 2025). Read at source 28 October 2026. the source ↗cited in Five Percent, If
• Anthropic's economic policy framework page: "A $200 million commitment to an Economic Futures Research Fund". Read at source 28 October 2026. the source ↗cited in Five Percent, If
• GSA, 6 August 2025: "Every participating U.S. federal agency will have access for a nominal fee of $1 to ChatGPT Enterprise for one year." Read at source. the source ↗cited in A Dollar a Year
• GSA, 12 August 2025, the Anthropic deal: Claude "to all Branches of Gov for Just $1", "$1 Per Agency" in the body; Anthropic's own post the same day: Claude for Enterprise and Claude for Government "to all three branches of government. for $1"; "This package will be available for one year." Anthropic makes Claude. A disclosure: Token Runner is built with Claude. the source ↗cited in A Dollar a Year
• Anthropic's own post, 12 August 2025. the source ↗cited in A Dollar a Year
• GSA, 21 August 2025: Google's Gemini for Government at $0.47 per agency. the source ↗cited in A Dollar a Year
• GSA, 10 September 2026, OpenAI's new deal: "a 50% discount on token-based usage"; "no platform-access fee, no minimum orders, and no spend commitment"; and GSA's own calculation that "approximately $1.4 billion stems from AI agreements that have expanded access to AI tools for roughly 3.5 million federal employees" (GSA's savings figures are its own calculation against list prices, not audited). the source ↗cited in A Dollar a Year
• GSA, 'GSA, Anthropic Reach OneGov Agreement on Discounted, Consumption-Based Pricing for Claude', 27 October 2026: "40% discount on token-based usage"; "No minimum orders"; "As offers expire, GSA will renew agreements where appropriate". Read at source 28 October 2026. the source ↗cited in A Dollar a Year
• Anthropic's own post, 'Expanding our partnership with GSA to bring Claude to all levels of government', 27 October 2026: its estimate of $1 billion in savings and the extension to state, local and tribal governments, as Anthropic's own claims. Read at source 28 October 2026. the source ↗cited in A Dollar a Year
• Nextgov, September 2026: Anthropic's $1 deal extended to 31 October 2026 (citing GSA's listing; the 2026 listing is reported as 'per user', not established, so neither is said here); Google's to 15 November 2026. the source ↗cited in A Dollar a Year
• Nextgov, September 2026: Google extends its Gemini OneGov deal to 15 November; a GSA official's statement to Nextgov, 29 September 2026: "OneGov is maturing from short-term promotional pricing toward direct contracts that secure benefits and give agencies broad choice." the source ↗cited in A Dollar a Year
• HHS, Notice of Intent to Award Sole Source, 7571TE27R00001, posted 19 October 2026, responses due 21 October: "NOTICE OF INTENT TO AWARD SOLE SOURCE. continued enterprise access to Anthropic's Claude. pending award of the competitive HHS Enterprise Frontier SI Models and Advanced Features multiple-award BPA"; cites FAR 13.106-1(b)(1); gives no value. A notice of intent, not an award. the source ↗cited in A Dollar a Year
• FedScoop, 23 October 2026: an HHS spokesperson, "a temporary six-month sole-source bridge contract" to "maintain continuity of vital" AI services; FedScoop's 'under $350,000' is its own inference. the source ↗cited in A Dollar a Year
• Anthropic PBC v. U.S. Department of War, US District Court for the Northern District of California, No. 26-cv-01996-RFL: Judge Rita F. Lin's order of 26 March 2026 enjoins "implementing, applying, or enforcing. The February 27, 2026 Presidential Directive ordering all federal agencies to cease use of Anthropic's technology", "pending final resolution of this action or further order of this Court". Anthropic makes Claude. A disclosure: Token Runner is built with Claude. the source ↗cited in A Dollar a Year
• Jessica Tillipman, George Washington University Law School, 'Twenty-Five Cent AI: The Hidden Costs of Promotional AI Deals': "The leverage agencies have today will not survive renewal." the source ↗cited in A Dollar a Year
• Jessica Tillipman as quoted by FedScoop, 11 August 2026: the dollar price is "a nominal cost that makes the transaction sound exciting and low risk, while the true economics, such as lifecycle costs, operational dependency, and reduced negotiating leverage, arrive later." FedScoop also carries Greg Barbaccia, then federal CIO: "I don't think it's going to be $1. I think it'll be transparent at least." the source ↗cited in A Dollar a Year
• Yale, the Poorvu Center for Teaching and Learning, its AI guidance and its Turnitin page: "…the Poorvu Center doesn't endorse the use of AI detection software or enable such features in Canvas."; "The AI detection feature of Turnitin is currently disabled." The AI guidance page: poorvucenter.yale.edu/teaching/teaching-resource-library/ai-guidance-for-teachers/ai-course-assignment-design/academic. the source ↗cited in Detectors Out
• Cornell, Center for Teaching Innovation: "Unfortunately, it is unlikely that detection technologies will provide a workable solution to this problem." the source ↗cited in Detectors Out
• Washington State University, its memo on cancelling its AI-detection contract, read at source: "As of February 2026, WSU has cancelled its contract with Turnitin for its AI Detection software."; "In Fall 2024, Turnitin was used at WSU to analyze 148,547 assessments… almost 1,485 assessments were likely flagged… when they were not." (WSU's own arithmetic at 1%; the memo: "Although disputed, Turnitin claims that they have a false positive detection rate… of 1-2%"); a third of the AI cases at its hearing boards, 2023 to 2025, ended not responsible because the detector was the only evidence; suspicion from the detector alone "is not sufficient". the source ↗cited in Detectors Out
• Turnitin, its current guide to AI writing detection, read at source: its AI detection "should not be used as the sole basis for adverse actions against a student." Its June 2023 blog: "less than 1%… for documents with 20% or more AI writing"; "sentence-level false positive rate is around 4%"; scores of 1 to 19% now show as an asterisk. The 2023 blogs: turnitin.com/blog/understanding-false-positives-within-our-ai-writing-detection-capabilities and …/understanding-the-false-positive-rate-for-sentences-of-our-ai-writing-detection-capability. the source ↗cited in Detectors Out
• The Center for Digital Thriving (Tench, Weinstein and James, with Starks and Konrath), 2026, a national survey of more than 1,000 US public-school teachers and principals, fielded April to May 2025, read at source: to "Are there specific policies or guidelines that govern Gen AI use in your school?", 18% of teachers and 24% of principals answered "Yes" or "Yes, but they need significant improvement" (no "No" split published); 25% and 29% report an AI dilemma; of those, 74% and 69% describe suspected cheating; the researchers' term "AI-dar" is for K-12. the source ↗cited in Detectors Out
• Vanderbilt, 16 August 2023 (live 28 October 2026): "Vanderbilt has decided to disable Turnitin's AI detection tool for the foreseeable future."; "Vanderbilt submitted 75,000 papers to Turnitin in 2022… around 750 student papers could have been incorrectly labeled as having some of it written by AI." the source ↗cited in Detectors Out
• UW-Madison, its guiding principles for generative AI in teaching: it "decided not to offer an enterprise tool for AI detection". the source ↗cited in Detectors Out
• The Center for Digital Thriving's summary page, 'An AI policy isn't a playbook', and Harvard GSE's Usable Knowledge piece on the survey (October 2026). the source ↗cited in Detectors Out
• The makers' own YouTube uploads and pages, the autonomy label as the video or the maker's own page states it, read at source on 28 October 2026: stated autonomous 3 (all Figure: "Zero-shot whole-body autonomy", "fully autonomous", "a single learned Vision-Language-Action policy"); stated partly 1 (AGIBOT: the table-tennis part "with no remote control or scripts"); unstated 5 (Unitree's H2-X launch; Boston Dynamics' Atlas Airborne, Atlas drink and New Hands for Atlas; UBTECH's Walker S2); unverified 1 (1X's NEO launch video: no captions, the on-screen labels could not be read). None says a person is steering. the source ↗cited in Who's Holding the Controller?
• Unitree, its X post of 21 October 2026 introducing the H2-X: "Powerful performance to serve and guard you, with a maximum endurance of approximately 8 hours. Please use the robot safely and in a friendly manner." 14,704,610 impressions as read 28 October 2026; the YouTube upload 1,952,487 views. the source ↗cited in Who's Holding the Controller?
• 1X's own X post of its NEO launch video, 69,293,417 impressions, with no label in its text; Unitree does label some of its posts ('Fully Autonomous', 7 September 2026, 5.94 million impressions), it just did not label the H2-X launch. the source ↗cited in Who's Holding the Controller?
• The Wall Street Journal (Joanna Stern), "I Tried the First Humanoid Home Robot. It Got Weird.", the Journal's own YouTube channel, 28 October 2025; 3,012,789 views. At 3:49, the operator: "I am a remote operator in a different room in the building." The narration: "this operator with a VR headset and controllers was the one actually operating Neo." At 4:39: "The videos of the robot doing things via tele-operation become the training data to make the AI model smarter." (Stern has since left the Journal; the clip is the Journal's, 2025.) the source ↗cited in Who's Holding the Controller?
• Marques Brownlee (MKBHD), his own YouTube channel, 29 October 2025, reacting to the Journal's test (he did not test NEO himself); 7,070,524 views. At 4:15 to 5:20: "Yeah, all of this is teleoperated, and this was a demo set up by this 1X company. So this is like best case scenario stuff." and "they actually are very careful to label exactly when the robot is doing something autonomously and not teleoperated… there's exactly two scenes that have this label." The two labelled scenes: getting the door, and putting away the dishes. the source ↗cited in Who's Holding the Controller?
• 1X, its NEO page, in full: "NEO works autonomously by default. For any chore it doesn't know, you can schedule a 1X Expert to guide it, helping NEO learn while getting the job done."; "Expert Mode": the Expert can "remotely supervise its actions at scheduled times"; "Remote Control: Pilot your NEO from anywhere in the world through your Mobile App & VR device." And Bernt Børnich's reply to MKBHD on X, 29 October 2025, in full: "@MKBHD Just to clarify, all actions portrayed as AI in the video (text layovers from the AI planner) is 100% autonomous. We hope to ship a mostly fully autonomous robot in 2026, but chose to not promise anything that does not already works today. Hopefully breaking with the trend." the source ↗cited in Who's Holding the Controller?
• Figure, "Helix 2.5: Zero-Shot 30-Home Generalization", 17 September 2026, read at source by Token Runner on 28 October 2026: "Holding task-specific data, architecture, training, and evaluation fixed, Index pretraining alone increased zero-shot success from 9% to 56%."; "If a human intervention is necessary for safety, that rollout is aborted and failed."; "The point is not that general humanoid robotics is solved." The 9% is the same robot trained from scratch. the source ↗cited in Who's Holding the Controller?
• The Verge, "Are humanoid robots the next smart home gadget?", 10 January 2026, its own channel: at 3:23 to 3:56, Zeroth's CEO on tele-operation in the home as necessary for safety; at 4:24 to 4:57, LG's CLOiD folding one towel. the source ↗cited in Who's Holding the Controller?
• Unitree's own X post of 7 September 2026, 'Fully Autonomous', 5.94 million views as read 28 October 2026 (the post's own count). the source ↗cited in Who's Holding the Controller?
• The Hollywood Reporter, 26 October 2026: Ava DuVernay at AFI Fest. Read at source. the source ↗cited in Animating the Archive
• Decider (Anna Menta), 9 October 2026, on the New York Film Festival press conference. Read at source. the source ↗cited in Animating the Archive
• RogerEbert.com (Jourdain Searles), 12 October 2026, the review of '14th'. The site refuses automated readers; the quote was read at source on 28 October 2026. the source ↗cited in Animating the Archive
• World of Reel (Jordan Ruimy), 10 October 2026. Read at source. the source ↗cited in Animating the Archive
• TheWrap (Siddhant Adlakha), 9 October 2026, the review of '14th'. Read at source. the source ↗cited in Animating the Archive
• The Archival Producers Alliance, 'Best Practices for Use of Generative AI in Documentaries', September 2024, Sections 1C, 2 and 4. Read at source. the source ↗cited in Animating the Archive
• Netflix, Partner Help Center, 'Using Generative AI in Content Production' (an undated page, read 28 October 2026). the source ↗cited in Animating the Archive
• Google, 'Moving Archives', 1 July 2025: the Harley-Davidson Museum. Read at source. the source ↗cited in Animating the Archive
• The BBC Media Centre, 2 March 2026: World Service 'Witness History', AI-animated episodes. Read at source. the source ↗cited in Animating the Archive
• The Auschwitz Memorial on X, 13 July 2026: 111,787 impressions as read 28 October 2026. the source ↗cited in Animating the Archive
• The Auschwitz Memorial on X, 9 August 2026. Read at source. the source ↗cited in Animating the Archive
• Decider on X, 9 October 2026, on the AI use in '14th': 640,007 impressions as read 28 October 2026. the source ↗cited in Animating the Archive
• The National Archives, the 14th Amendment: its citizenship clause. Read at source. the source ↗cited in Animating the Archive
• The episode's own YouTube page, No Big Deal, Episode 1: 30,550 views, read 28 October 2026 about 02:34 Japan time; the channel's 14 Shorts, 26,562 views together. the source ↗cited in The All-AI Sitcom
• ModeLabs.ai, its own case study, 'No Big Deal — World's First AI Sitcom': "No actors. No cameras. No film crew." the source ↗cited in The All-AI Sitcom
• The launch release as carried by ATV Today, 14 September 2026: Andrew Dickinson's "slow and prohibitively expensive"; "the script was rewritten more than 65 times"; Dan Hawthorne's "Nobody questions whether the CGI in a Marvel film is 'cheating'." the source ↗cited in The All-AI Sitcom
• UNILAD Tech, 15 September 2026: about 630 views two days after release. the source ↗cited in The All-AI Sitcom
• Stuart Heritage, The Guardian, 15 September 2026, zero stars. the source ↗cited in The All-AI Sitcom
• Imogen West-Knights, Prospect, 29 September 2026: "AI television is here. And it sucks." the source ↗cited in The All-AI Sitcom
• SAG-AFTRA's statement on Tilly Norwood, 30 September 2025, as quoted in full by Variety. the source ↗cited in The All-AI Sitcom
• Equity, 25 September 2026: "Equity is close to securing the first ever automatic AI protections for film and TV performers ... alongside an industry commitment to strongly prefer human performance." the source ↗cited in The All-AI Sitcom
• Fox News Media, 8 October 2026, on Fox Nation's 'Houdini: Back from the Dead'. the source ↗cited in The All-AI Sitcom
• Variety, 9 October 2026, on 'Space Nation' and 'Kira' at Mipcom. the source ↗cited in The All-AI Sitcom
• Pew Research, 2025, as published in Stanford HAI, AI Index Report 2026, figure 9.2.4: 64% of US adults and 39% of AI experts say AI will lead to fewer jobs. Values as published. the source ↗cited in AI: It's a F*cking Warzone Out There
• Layoffs.fyi, the AI layoffs list: 48,716 employees in layoffs attributed to AI in the second quarter of 2026. Attributions the source records, not a count Token Runner made. the source ↗cited in AI: It's a F*cking Warzone Out There
• Ipsos, 2025, as published in Stanford HAI, AI Index Report 2026, figure 9.3.1: 31% in the United States trust their government to regulate AI, the lowest of the 30 countries shown. Values as published.cited in AI: It's a F*cking Warzone Out There
• SEC filings, annual reports of 70 companies with both figures in each year (of the 71 Token Runner tracks): capital spending $631.4 billion for 2025 and $431.8 billion for 2024; revenue $6,097.2 billion and $5,465.4 billion. The two percentages are arithmetic on the filed sums.cited in AI: It's a F*cking Warzone Out There
• SEC filings, cash-flow lines, 60 companies: debt raised $349.4 billion in fiscal 2025; $381.5 billion so far in fiscal 2026.cited in AI: It's a F*cking Warzone Out There
• Epoch AI, AI Chip Owners, median estimates at 31 December 2025: 67.4% of compute held is in chips Nvidia designed; Google 24.1%, Microsoft 16.3%, Amazon 11.7%, Meta 11.0% of compute held (63.1% together, a sum of those four). the source ↗cited in AI: It's a F*cking Warzone Out There
• Epoch AI, AI Chip Components, median estimates, 2025: Nvidia 58.5% of advanced-packaging (CoWoS) wafers.cited in AI: It's a F*cking Warzone Out There
• Federal Register, Bureau of Industry and Security: 52 final export-control rules in 2024, 23 in 2025, 12 in 2026 to 24 September.cited in AI: It's a F*cking Warzone Out There
• Epoch AI, AI chip sales, median estimates, 2025: 646,000 H100-equivalents in chips marked as made primarily for the Chinese market against 12.97 million not so marked. The table marks a chip's intended market, not where it ended up.cited in AI: It's a F*cking Warzone Out There
• Epoch AI, Frontier AI Models: the largest training run on the list, 9.4e26 FLOP, against 5.0e25 for the largest published in 2023; 18 of 138 models from OpenAI, 16 from Google and 5 more from DeepMind.cited in AI: It's a F*cking Warzone Out There
• Epoch AI, Notable AI Models, 2025: 30 of 107 notable models released with unrestricted open weights; the other 77 through an API, hosted, restricted or other forms.cited in AI: It's a F*cking Warzone Out There
• Epoch AI, the data centres file: Ohio 1,457 megawatts of AI data-centre power across 7 sites, the most of any US state in the file.cited in AI: It's a F*cking Warzone Out There
• US Energy Information Administration, average residential price of electricity: Ohio 19.45 cents a kilowatt-hour in July 2026 and 12.26 in July 2020; US average in July 2026, households 18.31 cents and industry 9.77.cited in AI: It's a F*cking Warzone Out There
• Epoch AI, AI acknowledgment in mathematics preprints: 0.4% in September 2024, 1.7% in September 2025, 38.1% in September 2026 (3,012 of 7,899).cited in AI: It's a F*cking Warzone Out There
• Epoch AI, Epoch Capabilities Index: best closed-weights model 166.82, best open-weights model 157.42.cited in AI: It's a F*cking Warzone Out There
• Associated Press (Seth Borenstein), "AI firm leaders tell UN Security Council that it could be a risk to all humanity", 23 September 2026, as carried by PBS NewsHour: the words of Dario Amodei and Sam Altman at the UN Security Council. the source ↗cited in AI: It's a F*cking Warzone Out There
• Reuters, "Tech leaders, governments split over AI doom fears", 21 September 2026, as carried by BNN Bloomberg: the words of Elon Musk, Demis Hassabis and Jensen Huang (Huang to CBS News). the source ↗cited in AI: It's a F*cking Warzone Out There
• António Guterres, address to the opening of the General Debate of the 81st session of the UN General Assembly, 22 September 2026 (the words as reported by Tech Policy Press, 27 September 2026; to be confirmed on the UN text before publishing). the source ↗cited in AI: It's a F*cking Warzone Out There
• Layoffs.fyi, the list of layoffs attributed to AI ( as Token Runner collected it on 2 October and 9 October 2026 the source ↗cited in By the People
• OpenResearch, 'Unconditional Cash Study', the study's own page the source ↗cited in By the People
• Fortune / The Associated Press (Kaitlyn Huamani), 'Anthropic just proposed taxing itself to pay for the jobs its AI destroys', 11 June 2026 the source ↗cited in By the People
• BBC News (Faisal Islam), 'We'll need universal basic income - AI godfather', 18 May 2024 the source ↗cited in By the People
• Axios, interview with Dario Amodei, 28 May 2025 the source ↗cited in By the People
• Euronews (Pascale Davies), 'Life on Mars, honest AI, and a job-free future: Elon Musk opens up at VivaTech Q&A', 23 May 2024 the source ↗cited in By the People
• Fortune (Mia Osmonbekov), 'A new bill would tax AI tokens to fund jobs if the technology causes mass unemployment', 1 September 2026 the source ↗cited in By the People