Fact-Checking Research Checklist

This document contains a checklist of claims and statements that require fact-checked research and verification.

AI Governance & Standards

• AI Alliance for Open Innovation Foundation (AAIF) launch date and structure
  • Verify the December 2025 launch date
  • Confirm founding member organizations
  • Validate governance structure claims
• Open Source Initiative (OSI) AI definition process
  • Confirm timeline for “Open Source AI” definition
  • Verify current status of discussions
  • Check user sovereignty considerations in current drafts
• EU AI Act compliance deadlines
  • Verify 2026 compliance deadline
  • Confirm requirements for AI providers
  • Check enforcement mechanisms
• State attorneys general AI investigations
  • Verify “40+ state AGs investigating AI harms” claim
  • Document specific investigations and their status
  • Confirm scope of investigations

Real-World Impact Claims

• AI-related crisis situations
  • Research documented cases of AI system failures in crisis situations
  • Verify claims about vulnerable user abandonment
  • Document crisis intervention gaps in current AI systems
• Emotional continuity and session termination
  • Research impact of AI session termination on users
  • Document user experiences with relationship loss
  • Verify claims about therapeutic relationship disruption
• Neurodivergent and vulnerable populations
  • Research specific needs of neurodivergent users with AI systems
  • Verify claims about inadequate protections
  • Document community feedback and experiences

Technical & Implementation Claims

• Multi-agent coordination challenges
  • Verify claims about multi-agent governance gaps
  • Research current state of multi-agent systems
  • Document coordination failures or issues
• Training data rights and governance
  • Research current state of training data rights
  • Verify licensing gaps for AI-specific challenges
  • Document user data protection issues
• Emotional continuity technology
  • Research existing emotional continuity implementations
  • Verify technical feasibility claims
  • Document current best practices

Historical Context

• Open source software licensing history
  • Verify claims about licensing framework evolution
  • Confirm limitations of current licenses for AI
  • Research OSI and FSF positions on AI governance
• Linux Foundation history with OpenStack
  • Verify claims about corporate capture patterns
  • Document OpenStack governance evolution
  • Confirm relevance to current AI governance
• Cloud infrastructure parallels
  • Research structural capture claims
  • Verify comparisons to cloud infrastructure evolution
  • Document lessons learned

Regulatory Environment

• Class action lawsuits against AI companies
  • Document existing lawsuits
  • Verify claims about regulatory pressure
  • Confirm scope and status
• Compliance framework development
  • Research current governance frameworks
  • Verify market control claims
  • Document standards development processes

HAIEF Framework Claims

• NeuroLift Technologies background
  • Verify founding contribution claims
  • Document Joshua Dorsey Sr. credentials
  • Confirm framework origination
• Framework implementation status
  • Verify “working implementations” claims
  • Document any existing deployments
  • Confirm technical feasibility

Notes

• Each item should be researched with multiple credible sources
• Document all sources and citations
• Update this checklist as verification is completed
• Flag any discrepancies or concerns for review
• Prioritize claims that are central to HAIEF’s mission and messaging