Source Methodology#
Preferred source order#
- Enacted law, regulation, official guidance, and court records.
- International instruments and official institutional records.
- Peer-reviewed research and transparent academic preprints.
- Independent audits and established civil-society investigations.
- Original company documentation and transparency reports.
- Reputable journalism with named evidence.
- Commentary, advocacy, and anecdotal material, clearly attributed.
Verification rules#
- Check unstable facts at publication time.
- Record exact dates and jurisdictions.
- Distinguish what a technology collects from what it infers.
- Distinguish model output from independently verified fact.
- Do not treat a bibliography as validation of the surrounding claim.
- Preserve disagreement when reliable sources conflict.
- Do not generalize one platform, model, dialect, region, or experiment to all AI systems.
Legal and scientific caution#
The site is not legal or medical advice. Claims about emotion recognition, consciousness, mental states, causation, and individual future conduct require especially careful qualification.