The Cross-Examination: Twelve Questions for What an AI Builds, a Kill Rule for What It Claims

Part 2 of the Trust Trilogy. A fixed catalog of twelve questions that interrogates what an AI builds (plans, specs, structures), and a mandatory kill rule for what it claims: what does not survive the cross-examination is marked as refuted, visibly, with reason. Companion to The Librarian Spec, all versions: doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21269196. Originally published 2026-07-10 (all prior versions: 10.5281/zenodo.21288933); republished on the author's primary Zenodo account with corrected DOI references. Content unchanged.

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Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
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2026-07-18
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21428874
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The Cross-Examination: Twelve Questions for What an AI Builds, a Kill Rule for What It Claims

Sadullah Pamdir
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Law, AI, and Intellectual Property
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The Cross-Examination: Twelve Questions for What an AI Builds, a Kill Rule for What It Claims

Sadullah Pamdir
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Part 2 of the Trust Trilogy. A fixed catalog of twelve questions that interrogates what an AI builds (plans, specs, structures), and a mandatory kill rule for what it claims: what does not survive the cross-examination is marked as refuted, visibly, with reason. Companion to The Librarian Spec, all versions: doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21269196. Originally published 2026-07-10 (all prior versions: 10.5281/zenodo.21288933); republished on the author's primary Zenodo account with corrected DOI references. Content unchanged.

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