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