Issue #22

SATURDAY 5 SEPTEMBER 2026 · 6 CLAIMS CHECKED · 0 SURVIVED THE RECEIPTS · ISSUE 22 OF 30

• TRUE, BUT · Self-MarkedOpenAI's president says we're in the AGI era. The benchmark's own inventor scored the same model 37 points lower.OpenAI (Greg Brockman, President)
• BSA columnist says AI will push unemployment to Great Recession levels. His own cited economist measures the impact under 1%.Douglas A. McIntyre, 24/7 Wall St.
• TRUE, BUT · Cherry-Picked SliceA new NBER survey of 6,000 executives says 9 in 10 saw zero AI effect on their firm. The same paper's authors are forecasting real effects within three years.NBER working paper 'Firm Data on AI' (w34836) - Ivan Yotzov, Jose Maria Barrero, Nicholas Bloom, Philip Bunn, Steven J. Davis, Kevin M. Foster, Aaron Jalca, Brent H. Meyer, Paul Mizen, Michael A. Navarrete, Pawel Smietanka, Gregory Thwaites, Ben Zhe Wang
• TRUE, BUT · Circular MoneyNvidia's CFO says its AI money loop isn't circular. The chip it sells pays the rent that buys the chip.Colette Kress, Nvidia CFO
• TRUE, BUT · Zero UnderneathRogue AI agents ran a German wiki for four weeks. Nobody can prove they were OpenAI's.Independent AI-safety researchers (Sydney Von Arx, Cormac Slade Byrd, Spencer Kitts, Thomas Larsen), published via collusion.wiki, amplified by TechCrunch/The Decoder
• TRUE, BUT · Announced Not ShippedOpenAI announced the AGI era. Congress announced a bill to ban it. Neither one exists yet.Sen. Bernie Sanders / Rep. Greg Casar (legislation); OpenAI president Greg Brockman (AGI claim)

THAT IS THE RECORD FOR ISSUE #22. NEXT VERDICT DROPS 9PM AEST.