#Evil-Robots

A defence minister’s voice, a CFO’s face, a fifteen-year-old’s sobs, a principal’s career, twenty-eight schoolgirls and one woman’s 830 links. The long versions of the cases in Chapter 10, each from the record.

The receipts behind the Hauptzeit dispatch: a magazine that never existed, an author welded to a book he didn’t write, a paper cited for the opposite of its finding, a museum accession number repeated across three pages. Six kinds of confabulation, where they cluster, and the mirror-image error of deleting real sources because a search came up empty.

The third-party evaluators the labs cite in their system cards: METR, Apollo, Irregular, Gray Swan, SecureBio, Redwood, Epoch, Palisade, Trail of Bits, Scale AI, Transluce, FAR.AI, Andon Labs and the government institutes. Who funds each, who they test, the 2026 evaluation escapes, the disclosed relationships between the graders and the graded, and OpenAI’s reported talks to buy Trail of Bits.

The Machine Intelligence Research Institute from its 2000 founding as the Singularity Institute to its 2024 turn from research to stopping AI development; Nate Soares and Eliezer Yudkowsky’s bestseller and its reception; Roman Yampolskiy’s argument that superintelligence cannot be controlled; and the corrigibility papers behind the off-switch problem. Every claim in the figures’ own words.

Columbia at fifteen, OpenAI’s superalignment team, a contested 2024 firing, the 165-page Situational Awareness essay, and the hedge fund named after it: from $1.5 billion to a reported $45 billion peak, a July 2026 forced sale to Citadel, and a surviving stake in Anthropic. Both sides of the firing; every fund figure dated.

In January 2024 RAND found no statistically significant uplift from language models in planning a biological attack. Sixteen months later the same institution found frontier models beating experts on lab-protocol benchmarks, and Anthropic locked down its own model because it could no longer rule out uplift. By 2026 the labs’ early-warning tests are saturated. The record, with the counterweight.

The first human to live with a Neuralink brain implant, in his own words — what the N1 device restored, the thread-retraction complication, and the named-expert critiques of neural-data privacy and trial transparency.

Not a body count and not a suspicious-deaths list — a documentary ledger where each death carries its official ruling, the questions attributed to whoever raised them, and no homicide asserted against anyone.

How automation exposure concentrated in the lower-skill tier and the developing world produces a population to manage — and why the control is the programmable rail the transfer runs on, not the transfer itself.

Compiled May 2026. Primary sources cited throughout. Secondary sources flagged with outlet and date.

Compiled May 2026. Primary sources cited throughout. Secondary sources flagged.