01 / Company statement
AI & Robotics: Tesla Optimus
The existence and stated aims of the Optimus program; company goals are not independent proof of deployed capabilities.
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Research papers, public records, original texts, and film references. Each note states what the source can—and cannot—support.
Reviewed 7 September 2026 · External sources open in a new tab.
02 / Company research announcement
Gemini Robotics On-Device brings AI to local robotic devices
A robot model designed to operate locally without a continuous network connection; reported evaluations are the developer’s own.
03 / Research preprint
Gemini Robotics: Bringing AI into the Physical World
Vision-language-action models controlling different robot embodiments. A preprint, not independent evidence of universal autonomy.
04 / Peer-reviewed experiment
Neuronal ensemble control of prosthetic devices by a human with tetraplegia
Human neural-signal control of a cursor and external devices before Transcendence was released.
05 / Company clinical-study update
PRIME Study Progress Update
The company’s first human implant and early computer-control experience. This does not establish consciousness transfer.
06 / Peer-reviewed experiment
An instantaneous voice-synthesis neuroprosthesis
Attempted speech decoded into expressive synthetic voice in a participant with ALS; not whole-mind reading or uploading.
07 / Peer-reviewed preclinical experiment
A DNA nanorobot functions as a cancer therapeutic in response to a molecular trigger in vivo
Experimental DNA structures delivering a therapeutic payload in animal models, not general-purpose cellular repair machines.
08 / Government investigation
A Look Behind the Screens
Documented data collection and automated uses at surveyed social media and video services; does not establish universal microphone access.
09 / Peer-reviewed experiment
On the conversational persuasiveness of GPT-4
Persuasion in controlled debates, including personalized AI conditions; effects are bounded by the experiment.
10 / Peer-reviewed research
AI Companions Reduce Loneliness
Short-term loneliness reductions in the studied settings; no conclusion about machine feelings or long-term replacement of human relationships.
11 / Research preprint
Emotional Manipulation by AI Companions
Research into companion-chatbot retention tactics; findings are not evidence that every interaction is manipulative.
12 / Institutional position paper
Autonomous Weapon Systems and International Humanitarian Law: Selected Issues
Autonomous target engagement and the ICRC’s case for human control. Its proposed new rules are distinguished from existing law.
13 / Government policy announcement
Update to Directive 3000.09: Autonomy in Weapon Systems
A documented 2023 policy addressing human judgment and review of autonomous weapons; policy statements alone do not verify compliance.
14 / Official system description
MQ-9 Reaper fact sheet
A remotely piloted armed aircraft with a human pilot and sensor operator, illustrating why drones and autonomous weapons must be distinguished.
15 / Government historical record
Trinity Site: World’s First Nuclear Explosion
Nuclear weapons preceded the Terminator films by decades.
16 / Government dataset
Distributional Financial Accounts
The unequal distribution of U.S. household wealth. The site avoids presenting a changing numerical share as a live figure.
17 / International-agency report
Tracking Universal Health Coverage: 2025 Global Monitoring Report
Persistent gaps in essential service coverage and financial hardship from health spending; evidence of unequal access, not Med-Bays.
18 / Government program announcement
NASA Selects Companies to Develop Commercial Destinations in Space
Funded commercial-station design programs, not an operating Elysium-style city or guaranteed future completion.
19 / International-agency analysis
Energy and AI
Electricity and data-centre infrastructure behind AI. Forecasts in the report are projections, not observed future results.
20 / International-agency analysis
Key Questions on Energy and AI: Executive summary
The physical, financial and power-supply constraints on growing AI infrastructure.
21 / International-agency analysis
Global Critical Minerals Outlook 2025: Executive summary
Concentration and vulnerabilities in strategic mineral supply chains; an economic comparison to spice, not a literal equivalence.
22 / Scientific agency reference
Moon Composition
A layered lunar interior inferred from multiple measurements, inconsistent with the film’s habitable artificial shell.
23 / Scientific agency reference
Moon Formation
The leading giant-impact explanation and continuing research on details of lunar origin.
24 / Mission result
NASA Confirms DART Mission Impact Changed Asteroid’s Motion in Space
A measured change in Dimorphos’s orbit following the September 2022 impact; not the ability to move or repair the Moon.
25 / Scientific agency reference
Cloning Fact Sheet
Distinctions between DNA, therapeutic and reproductive cloning; no verified human reproductive cloning in the cited account.
26 / Research institution history
The Life of Dolly
Dolly’s birth and cloning from an adult cell; not an adult clone with copied memories.
27 / Regulatory announcement
FDA Approves First Gene Therapies to Treat Patients with Sickle Cell Disease
A specific approved gene-editing therapy; this does not demonstrate engineered adult humans, immortality or genetic ownership of a person.
28 / Peer-reviewed mouse experiment
Creating a false memory in the hippocampus
Manipulation of a contextual fear association in mice, not installation of rich human autobiographical memories.
29 / Scientific agency reference
Inside the Earth
Crust, mantle and core, with increasing pressure and temperature at depth; inconsistent with a habitable hollow planetary interior.
30 / Peer-reviewed hypothesis paper
Directed Panspermia
A historical scientific proposal about deliberate microbial seeding. Publication establishes that the hypothesis was proposed, not that it occurred.
31 / Research program description
COSMIC
Radio technosignature searches at the Very Large Array; a search program is not a confirmed alien detection.
32 / Scientific agency statement
UAP FAQs
NASA reports no credible evidence of extraterrestrial life or evidence that UAP are extraterrestrial; unresolved observations are not automatically alien craft.
33 / Peer-reviewed experiment
Russian blues reveal effects of language on color discrimination
A language-associated difference on a specific color-discrimination task, not language granting access to future events.
34 / Peer-reviewed experiment
Russian blues reveal the limits of language influencing colour discrimination
A 2020 study of language and color discrimination with a 2026 correction. Consult the linked correction record; this edition does not establish the effect of that correction on its findings.
35 / Peer-reviewed experiments
Lacking control increases illusory pattern perception
Experiments on perceiving patterns in unrelated stimuli; not a diagnosis of any individual viewer or a test of a particular movie claim.
36 / Government planning guidance
Continuity Guidance Circular
Planning to sustain essential functions through disruption; no evidence of a secret movie-style ark project.
37 / Disaster-response record
Hawaii Wildfires, August 2023
The real wildfire event and satellite-based response, separately from fictional volcanic destruction.
38 / Disaster-response record
Nepal Flooding, August 2024
One specifically identified Nepal flood response; not a verification that this is the event intended by the circulating 80–85-mile claim.
39 / Philosophical argument
Are You Living in a Computer Simulation?
A conditional philosophical argument, not empirical proof that our world is simulated.
40 / Primary philosophical text
Republic, Book VII
The cave allegory and education as a difficult turning toward understanding; a comparison with cinema is the Index’s interpretation.
41 / Primary religious text in translation
The Apocryphon of John
One historical Gnostic creation myth; it neither represents all Gnostic traditions nor verifies literal cosmic rulers.
42 / Primary literary text
The Coming Race
Vril’s literary origin in a novel about an underground civilization, not a discovered energy or proven Nazi technology.
43 / Historical esoteric/travel narrative
Beasts, Men and Gods
An influential account of Agarthi lore; evidence for the circulation of a story, not the existence of its hidden kingdom.
44 / Historical museum scholarship
Eugenics
Documented coercive racial policies and the pseudoscience used to justify them; no evidence for reptilian rulers.
45 / Primary religious text with commentary
Isaiah 14
The chapter’s taunt against a Babylonian king; later Lucifer traditions require interpretation rather than a flat equation of every passage.
46 / Primary religious text
Luke 1
Gabriel’s messenger role in the canonical Gospel, unlike the film’s invented conspiracy.
47 / Primary religious text
Mark 5
A canonical account of exorcism; it is not a medical explanation of contemporary distress.
48 / Publisher edition of the original novel
Dune: original novel and publication history
The original literary source and publication context. Book-specific concepts are distinguished from film scenes; the publisher synopsis is not a transcript of either adaptation.
49 / Primary literary text
A Journey to the Centre of the Earth
The literary source tradition. The 2008 film follows different characters and is not a literal scene-for-scene adaptation.
50 / Official film synopsis
I, Robot
Film identity and premise. Scene descriptions in the Index are paraphrases, without dialogue quotations or timestamps.
51 / Film catalog record
Transcendence
Film identity, release and credits.
52 / Official film synopsis
Ex Machina
The search-company founder, programmer and humanoid-AI premise. The film had a 2014 preview before its 2015 theatrical release.
53 / Official film synopsis
Elysium
The film’s separation of the wealthy in orbit from the population on Earth.
54 / Official film synopsis
Oblivion
Film identity and the security-repairman premise.
55 / Official film synopsis
Blade Runner 2049
K’s investigation and the film’s identity.
56 / Official film synopsis
Terminator 2: Judgment Day
Film premise; the Index uses the correct character spelling, John Connor.
57 / Official film page
Moonfall
Film identity; movie science is assessed separately against NASA sources.
58 / Film catalog record
Jupiter Ascending (2015)
Film identity and credits.
59 / Film catalog record
Iron Sky: The Coming Race
The sequel’s identity and its 2019 release year.
60 / Official film synopsis
Prometheus
The expedition’s search for humanity’s origins.
61 / Distributor film listing
Constantine
Film identity and detective/exorcist premise; not a theological authority.
62 / Official producer page
Journey to the Center of the Earth
The Eric Brevig / Brendan Fraser adaptation specified in this Index, not the other 2008 adaptations.
63 / Official film synopsis
Arrival
Film identity and first-contact premise.
64 / Official producer page
Dune
Villeneuve’s first film and the Arrakis conflict.
65 / Official producer page
Dune: Part Two
Paul’s alliance with the Fremen and his conflict over the future.
66 / Official film synopsis
2012
The global-disaster fiction, not prediction of a later localized event.
67 / Official film site
The Matrix Resurrections
The fourth live-action film’s identity and franchise context.
68 / Film catalog record
The Matrix (1999)
The first film’s identity and credits; philosophical comparisons are editorial interpretations.
69 / Film catalog record
The Matrix Reloaded
Film identity, release and credits.
70 / Film catalog record
The Matrix Revolutions
Film identity and release year.
71 / Film catalog record
The Animatrix
The animated anthology and its multiple stories and directors.
72 / Film catalog record
Terminator Salvation
Film identity, release, director and character context.
73 / Company announcement
Honda Debuts New Humanoid Robot ASIMO
A documented humanoid-robot milestone before several of the films; not a demonstration of general human intelligence.
74 / Company explanation
How TikTok recommends videos for you
The company’s description of recommendation signals and ranking; not an independent audit or evidence of total behavioral control.
75 / Primary historical record
Trial of the Major War Criminals, Volume XXVI
Documents the Ahnenerbe’s institutional place within the SS. It does not establish occult powers, Vril technology or a hollow Earth.
76 / Primary religious text
Genesis 6
Noah, the ark and the sons-of-God passage as textual motifs. Comparisons with Engineers or other myths do not make distinct traditions identical.
77 / Primary mythological text
Works and Days
Prometheus, stolen fire and punishment as an older mythic source, not a report of biotechnology.
78 / Religious institutional guidance
Exorcism: Questions and Answers
The Catholic protocol calls for medical, psychological and psychiatric examination before referral; not verification of supernatural causation.
79 / Religious institutional guidance
Committee on Divine Worship Newsletter, December 2014
A dated publication of exorcism guidance including clinical assessment.
80 / Peer-reviewed research
Differential depth distribution of microbial function and putative symbionts through sediment-hosted aquifers in the deep terrestrial subsurface
Microbial communities in deep aquifers; not a habitable hollow planetary interior or an underground civilization.
81 / International agency program
WMO and the Early Warnings for All Initiative
Public early-warning coverage efforts; not prediction of a global movie-style catastrophe.
82 / Scientific agency explanation
Earthquake early warning, forecasts, probabilities and prediction
Distinguishes alerting after an earthquake starts from exact future-event prediction, forecasting and probabilities.
83 / Published correction record
Corrigendum to Russian blues reveal the limits of language influencing colour discrimination
Confirms a correction exists for the 2020 study. Its full content was not available in this review, so its effect on the earlier results is not claimed here.