You are going to act on what this book tells you, possibly in a meeting where your name is on the line. So the only question that matters here is blunt: can you trust these sources enough to stake your job on them? I checked every one twice before the first copy sold. This page is the record.
LEDGER CLOSED 10 AUGUST 2026 · TWO PASSES, THE SECOND RUN BLIND TO THE FIRST · BOTH AGREEING
AI SYSTEMS INVENT CITATIONS · THE FIX IS TO CHECK BEFORE YOU SELL
AI systems are known to invent citations. One of the sources in this very ledger is a sanctions opinion against lawyers who filed a brief built on cases that never existed. That failure is documented inside the book, and it had no business living anywhere in the book's bibliography.
The common sequence in publishing is to ship, wait for complaints, then quietly correct. I ran the audit first. Before this book went on sale, every source in it was opened and read twice, and the results were published here. What follows is the complete record: the tally, what the checks caught, the spot checks, the method, the corrections log, and the file hashes.
36 LEDGER ROWS ACROSS 35 BIBLIOGRAPHY ENTRIES · EVERY ROW, BOTH PASSES
The ledger holds 36 rows covering 35 bibliography entries. Every row was opened to the exact sentence that supports the book's claim, then re-checked against the primary source by an independent pass on 10 August 2026. Both passes agree.
WHAT THE 36 ROWS ARE
FIVE ENTRIES CORRECTED BEFORE THE FIRST COPY SOLD
A clean audit that catches nothing proves the audit was soft. This one caught five. Each row below is a citation that got tighter because someone opened the source, and each one shipped corrected before you could buy the book.
| Entry | What changed | Why it matters |
|---|---|---|
| EU AI Act, Annex III | Regulation (EU) 2026/1744, adopted 8 July 2026, postponed the Annex III high-risk employment obligations from 2 August 2026 to 2 December 2027. The book's deadline was updated to match. | Material. The postponement landed before this ledger closed, so the book's statement that the obligations were applicable was corrected before sale. |
| CVE-2025-32711 | Now cited with both scores: 9.3 Critical is the vendor CNA score; NVD independently reassessed at 7.5 High. | The two scoring bodies disagree. Quoting only one number would present a contested severity as settled. |
| NY Comptroller Audit | Given its specific citation: report 2024-N-6, issued 2 December 2025, covering July 2023 through June 2025, 13 recommendations. | A vague citation cannot be pulled and checked. This one can. You can request the report by number and read it yourself. |
| EEOC Guidance | The guidance language was clarified with the statute citation: disparate-impact liability survives in statute at 42 U.S.C. § 2000e-2(k). | Agency guidance can be withdrawn. The statute stands until Congress changes it, so the claim now rests on the stronger authority. |
| Two Research Papers | Durmus et al. cited at its peer-reviewed venue (COLM 2024) rather than the preprint; Fatemi et al., "Test of Time," cited at ICLR 2025. | Peer review is the stronger citation. Both preprint references were upgraded to the venues that accepted the work. |
PULLED AND READ AGAINST THE ORIGINAL RECORD
| Source | Result |
|---|---|
| Mata v. Avianca | 678 F. Supp. 3d 443 (S.D.N.Y.), sanctions opinion 22 June 2023. Held exactly as cited. |
| Moffatt v. Air Canada | 2024 BCCRT 149, decided 14 February 2024. Exact. |
| NYC Local Law 144 | In effect 1 January 2023, enforcement from 5 July 2023. Remained correct. |
| The Research Papers | All 27 confirmed at the venue and year cited. |
TWO PASSES · THE SECOND RUN BLIND TO THE FIRST
I opened every ledger row to the specific sentence in the source that supports the book's claim. A title match is worthless if the sentence behind the claim is missing. The check is finding the sentence.
An independent re-check ran every row against primary sources, without reference to my notes. Same rows, fresh eyes, original documents.
EVERY CORRECTION GETS A DATED LINE · THE LOG RUNS FOREVER
SHA-256 PUBLISHED FOR FOUR FILES · HASH WHAT YOU RECEIVE, IT MUST MATCH
cf415dfefe59c778b3a9c7b51e52fe5ec18f6c6fc4384f29ccbd900d5f9a01dda20e3f21fe54f4c44a72b08c14ef95f20cb950f4fb61ccc7ea7938ca065e182f3de659e89a0a0c850a296d85fcd23856959d934484ba5c3f8434bab1797216a90937530b606faf921c4b5d9c7344d21587238fe988115281598e8e72ef322a66Every claim in the book traces back to one of these 36 rows. The book teaches you to run the same discipline on the AI output that ships under your name: open the source, find the sentence, log the check.