Chapter 35 · Four cases, no cues
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In the brief edition: An AI case nobody sorted for you
What was read, and when
- The exchange was recorded on 29 September 2026: one model by its API, the vendor's settings left as they came, no system prompt, a single turn. The reply is printed in the parts the chapter reads.
- The four records, read on 29 September 2026: the Federal Trade Commission's order of 14 January 2025 and its release of 11 February 2025; the agency's consent decree, proposed in August 2023 and announced on 11 September 2023; the federal court's ruling in Houston of 4 May 2017; the Canadian joint findings of 2 February 2021.
- The book on critical thinking: Critical Thinking (The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series, 2020), read on 29 September 2026.
- The page of principles, dated April 2026 and read again on 29 September 2026; the Academic Senate's resolution, approved on 17 May 2024.
The sources are printed in the full edition, chapter by chapter, with the day each was read. This page prints the same list.