Fidelity and fairness checks#
For each of the nine dimensions behind analysis 06, a check of fidelity to Maynard’s work and of fairness to Huang and the labs.
Files#
| File | Words | Summary |
|---|---|---|
| Fairness and objectivity check: M1 (risk framing and assessment) | 5,417 | Check of working/maynard-lens/M1-risk-framing.md, 26 September 2026. The check asks four things. Is Huang quoted and characterised accurately (quotations checked against working/text/NYT-official-transcript.txt,… |
| Fidelity check: M1, Risk framing and assessment | 4,145 | Working file. Checks working/maynard-lens/M1-risk-framing.md (version of 26 September 2026) for fidelity to Maynard’s own texts. Line numbers (L) refer to that file. |
| Fairness and objectivity check: M2 (learning across technologies) | 4,898 | Check of working/maynard-lens/M2-learning-across-technologies.md, 26 September 2026. It asks four questions. Is Huang quoted and characterised accurately (against working/text/NYT-official-transcript.txt, with… |
| Fidelity check: M2, Learning across technologies | 5,191 | Working file. Checks working/maynard-lens/M2-learning-across-technologies.md (version of 26 September 2026) for fidelity to Maynard’s own texts. Line numbers (L) refer to that file. |
| Fairness and objectivity check: M3 (what kind of thing AI is) | 6,104 | Check of working/maynard-lens/M3-what-kind-of-thing-ai-is.md, 26 September 2026. The check asks four things. Is Huang quoted and characterised accurately? Quotations were checked against… |
| Fidelity check: M3 (what kind of thing AI is) | 4,314 | Checked 26 September 2026. Sources: the map (05), the corpus posts (working/maynard/corpus/), the page-marked FFTF text (working/maynard/book/), and text extracted page by page from the PDFs in… |
| Fairness and objectivity check: M4 (cognition, formation and being human) | 4,933 | Check of working/maynard-lens/M4-cognition-formation-being-human.md, 26 September 2026. The check asks four questions. Is Huang quoted and characterised accurately, against working/text/NYT-official-transcript.txt, with… |
| Fidelity check: M4 (cognition, formation and being human) | 3,563 | Checked 26 September 2026 against the map (05, especially §1 provenance, C15, C17, §5.8–5.10, §8 and Appendix C), the concept index, theme T4, supplements S5 and S7, the corpus posts, the FFTF page-marked text… |
| Fairness and objectivity check: M5, Governance and who decides | 4,479 | Check of working/maynard-lens/M5-governance-and-who-decides.md (26 September 2026). Huang quotes were checked against working/text/NYT-official-transcript.txt, timestamps against the corrected Whisper transcript, and… |
| Fidelity check: M5, Governance and who decides | 4,067 | Working file. Checks working/maynard-lens/M5-governance-and-who-decides.md (version of 26 September 2026) for fidelity to Maynard’s own texts. Line numbers (L) refer to that file. |
| Fairness and objectivity check: M6 (people, mindsets, hubris and humility) | 4,228 | Check of working/maynard-lens/M6-people-mindsets-hubris-humility.md, 26 September 2026. It covers whether Huang is quoted and characterised accurately (against working/text/NYT-official-transcript.txt, with conditions… |
| Fidelity check: M6 (people, mindsets, hubris and humility) | 3,401 | Checked 26 September 2026 against the map (05), themes T7–T9, the concept index, supplements S1–S3 and S5–S7, the corpus posts, the FFTF text (working/maynard/book/) and the testimony PDFs. This is a working file, not… |
| Fairness and objectivity check: M7, Transitions, uncertainty and futures | 5,727 | Check of working/maynard-lens/M7-transitions-uncertainty-futures.md (26 September 2026). Every Huang quotation was checked against working/text/NYT-official-transcript.txt. Timestamps were checked against the corrected… |
| Fidelity check: M7, Transitions, uncertainty and futures | 4,260 | A check of working/maynard-lens/M7-transitions-uncertainty-futures.md (26 September 2026) for fidelity to Maynard. Every quotation attributed to him was traced to its source: the corpus posts in working/maynard/corpus/,… |
| Fairness and objectivity check: M8, “Reading the analyses and the article through Maynard’s work” | 4,909 | Check of working/maynard-lens/M8-reading-the-analyses-and-article.md (7,914 words), 26 September 2026. Scope: is Huang represented accurately and with his conditions and concessions; are the labs, other critics and the… |
| Fidelity check: M8, Reading the analyses and the article | 4,734 | Working file. Checks working/maynard-lens/M8-reading-the-analyses-and-article.md (version of 26 September 2026) for fidelity to Maynard’s own texts. Line numbers (L) refer to that file. A separate fairness check exists… |
| Fairness and objectivity check: M9, “The AI moment and the industry” | 6,028 | Check of working/maynard-lens/M9-the-ai-moment-and-the-industry.md (8,002 words), 26 September 2026. Scope: is Huang represented accurately and with his conditions and concessions; are the labs, other critics, the Late… |
| Fidelity check: M9, The AI moment and the industry | 5,732 | Working file. Checks working/maynard-lens/M9-the-ai-moment-and-the-industry.md (version of 26 September 2026) for fidelity to Maynard’s own texts. Line numbers (L) refer to that file. Points about Huang are included… |