Technical companion to the EU AI Act Readiness Report (April 2026) and its Annex A (May 2026). The paper revisits the predictive frame consolidated by Wait But Why in January 2015 (Bostrom, Kurzweil, Yudkowsky), scores 25 atomic claims against primary sources at May 2026, and proposes an operational reading of Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 for European deployers.
Scope
Technical companion to the EU AI Act Readiness Report (April 2026) and Annex A (May 2026) · 25 atomic claims scored · constrained prediction T+18 months
What the paper contains
Six movements: neutral restitution of the 2015 frame, point-by-point comparison against the 2026 record, methodological audit, reframing of surviving hypotheses, a constrained projection to 2030, and an operational reading of the AI Act for European deployers. A constrained prediction with explicit conditions of falsification (Article 99 by 2 December 2027) closes the paper.
Status
Discussion paper, not a peer-reviewed retrospective, not an audit certified by a third party. It proposes a doctrinal argument anchored in publicly verifiable data. Claims are scored on a five-level Armstrong scale.
Metrics
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