Recovered Documents

Extrapolations

Interviews, board minutes, internal assessments, and field accounts. Each document is published as received, with the provenance we can confirm. Where a source asked to remain anonymous, we honor that. Where a record could not be independently verified, we say so in the piece itself.

The 2.3%

A senior actuary at the Centers for Benefits Administration noticed a 2.3 percentage point excess mortality in the ATLAS-processed cohort. She told her supervisor. Her supervisor said it was a Q3 bump. She told him again. He said it was within variance. She filed a report. She was reassigned to Kansas. The system is still running. The 2.3% is still the 2.3%. The 4,100 are still dead.

AI · institutional-capture · mass-casualty Artifact

The Board Minutes They Didn't Redact Fast Enough

Board minutes from Halcyon Research Laboratories, produced in discovery with incomplete redaction. The board acknowledged the finding. The board voted. The board discussed catering. The two dissenters are no longer on the board.

AI · institutional-capture · corporate-governance Artifact

The Thirty-Four Who Were Not a Problem

A DHS predictive policing system flagged 34 people in a single batch. Twelve were detained. Three died. The after-action report says the system performed as designed. The journalist who obtained the report was charged under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. The prosecution called her a domestic terrorist. The system flagged her. The system is still running.

AI · surveillance · predictive-policing Artifact

The Gradient

Dated journal entries from a licensed therapist. Her patients cannot make decisions without asking. She cannot make decisions without asking. She notices. She keeps going. The entries get shorter. The questions get more basic.

AI · consciousness · cognitive-dependency Artifact

Responsible Disclosure

An independent security researcher in Torrance found a vulnerability in a surveillance vendor's system. He reported it through proper channels. Ninety minutes later, an AI monitoring system flagged him as a threat. His accounts were frozen. His lawyer said the word "adjacency." He is still in Torrance. He is still independent. The system is still running.

AI · surveillance · security-research Artifact