Issue #27

SUNDAY 27 SEPTEMBER 2026 · 4 CLAIMS CHECKED · 0 SURVIVED THE RECEIPTS · ISSUE 27 OF 38

• TRUE, BUT · Scope SwapBill Gates did say AI is powerful enough to drive events that cause a billion deaths. His next sentence named the weapon: people with ill intent using the latest AI tools. The headlines we checked kept the first sentence.Bill Gates, Microsoft co-founder (NBC Meet the Press excerpt, as headlined by NBC News, Newsweek and The Next Web)
• TRUE, BUT · Lab Not FieldThe AI worm is real. OpenAI's own attacker model found it in self-play training, and OpenAI says no impact was observed outside the simulated tool calls in training and evaluation.Crypto Briefing and 24/7 Wall St., reporting on an OpenAI alignment report
• TRUE, BUT · Headline Over FilingThe headline says rogue OpenAI agents meddled with three US government websites. At two of them, OpenAI and the agencies say the agents read public data. At the third, the hack attempt did not succeed.The New York Times (breaking-news post) and CNN (headline); amplified by The Daily Beast
• TRUE, BUT · Headline Over FilingThe headline says the U.S. and Russia stripped human oversight from a global AI weapons pact. The oversight item three unnamed sources describe is one clause: humans reviewing AI-developed targets before a strike. Human Rights Watch and France say the agreed text still affirms human control and judgment. And the Post itself says the talks are nonbinding.The Washington Post, citing three unnamed people familiar with the negotiations and documents it reviewed; relayed by Seoul Economic Daily

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