Evidence

Format Online paper / PDF

"The European Commission approved EUR 179.5 million in Croatian EU-backed aid for Level 5 autonomous-vehicle R&D by Project 3 Mobility."

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Source title State Aid SA.101759 (2023/N) - Croatia - RRF - Development and Implementation of a Completely New Urban Mobility System Based on New Autonomous Electric Vehicle Technology

Source authors European Commission

Source year 2023

Confidence high

Importance high

Format Web Page

"Verne initially announced a 2026 Zagreb launch of a purpose-built autonomous robotaxi."

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Source title Croatian startup readies self-driving taxi Verne for Zagreb launch

Source authors Reuters

Source year 2024

Confidence high

Importance high

Format Web Page

"Builder.ai relied heavily on human software workers despite promising substantially automated AI app-building."

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Source title Inside the collapse of Builder.ai: Was it even an AI company?

Source authors Varsha Bansal

Source year 2025

Confidence high

Importance high

Format Web Page

"The FTC finalized an order prohibiting DoNotPay from making deceptive AI-lawyer claims."

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Source title FTC Finalizes Order with DoNotPay That Prohibits Deceptive AI Lawyer Claims, Imposes Monetary Relief, and Requires Notice to Past Subscribers

Source authors Federal Trade Commission

Source year 2025

Confidence high

Importance high

Format Web Page

"A Tesla engineer testified that a 2016 promotional self-driving video was staged to portray capabilities beyond what the vehicle then possessed."

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Source title Tesla video promoting self-driving was staged, engineer testifies

Source authors Hyunjoo Jin

Source year 2023

Confidence high

Importance high

Format Web Page

"Eva Wiseman characterizes nihilism as a form of self-preservation against disappointment and fear."

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Source title When did being too earnest become a crime, and why?

Source authors Eva Wiseman

Source year 2025

Confidence high

Importance mid

Format Online paper / PDF

"Research identifies a cynical-genius illusion in which people associate cynicism with intelligence."

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Source title The Cynical Genius Illusion: Exploring and Debunking Lay Beliefs About Cynicism and Competence

Source authors Olga Stavrova and Daniel Ehlebracht

Source year 2019

Confidence high

Importance high

Format Online paper / PDF

"Teresa Amabile found that negative book reviewers were perceived as more intelligent and competent than positive reviewers."

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Source title Brilliant but Cruel: Perceptions of Negative Evaluators

Source authors Teresa M. Amabile

Source year 1981

Confidence high

Importance high

Format Book / Offline paper

"Clive Thompson argues that technological doomsaying can serve critics as a self-flattering identity of intellectual sophistication."

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Source title Smarter Than You Think

Source authors Clive Thompson

Source year 2013

Confidence high

Importance high

Format Web Page

"Mike Monteiro argues that dystopias can arise quickly when people abandon responsibility for one another."

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Source title How to stay hopeful

Source authors Mike Monteiro

Source year 2025

Confidence high

Importance mid