Chapter 13 · The letter to the bureau

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In the brief edition: One exchange with the AI or many rounds

What was read, and when

The three calls were recorded on 27 September 2026, from the model named in their headers. The facts sheet and the standard were written the same morning, before the first message. The recorded task is invented; the law is real.
The law: 15 U.S.C. § 1681i, read on 27 September 2026 at the House's United States Code site, and the next section of the same Act at GovInfo the same day.
The resend, in the makers' developer pages: OpenAI's "Conversation state" and Anthropic's "Using the Messages API", both undated, and Google's "Text generation", last updated 23 September 2026; all read on 25 September 2026.
The research run: a course's research workshop, 7 August 2026. Its log and the course's claims file were read on 27 September 2026.
The chat's rule was built on 26 September 2026.
The question "how will you know when you're done?": Computational Thinking (BCS, 2017), p. 41.
Table 13.1: the six parts are the courses' frame for a message. On its origin and limit: UNESCO, Media and Information Literate Citizens: Think Critically, Click Wisely! (2021), Module 14, p. 356.

The sources are printed in the full edition, chapter by chapter, with the day each was read. This page prints the same list.