How we judge
Signal judges the world by what was done, not by what was said.
Sanctity Signal is a daily record of what companies, governments and labs actually did in AI. This page explains what each part of a signal card tells you.
Actions first
An action costs something. A claim can cost nothing.
News carries actions, and it carries claims. A claim can be cheap to make, and it prints as easily as a fact. Signal records what was done, because doing something costs money, staff, legal exposure or a position that is hard to climb down from.
When someone only said something, the action on the record is that they said it. It is not recorded as true.
A cost is evidence to read, not proof of good intent. So every card shows its sources, what the action does and does not establish, and what would show the reading was wrong.
- What a feed would carry
- A company says it takes safety seriously and supports regulation.
- What goes in Signal
- The same company files a comment asking for the rule to be narrowed: signed, on the docket, by a dated deadline. It has a cost, an author and a record.
The card, part by part
Each part of a card answers one question.
A new card reads in about a minute. The record, the timeline, the weight, the words and every source sit one tap further down, in the five-minute read.
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More bars mean the action weighs more.
The bars beside a headline show how much the action tells you. They rise with what it cost the actor, how hard it binds them to a course, how hard it is to undo, how long it keeps mattering and how well it is confirmed.
One red bar is weak. Five blue bars are full. The bars carry no number on purpose. Open a card and "Why it weighs this much" shows the four parts: cost, commitment, reversibility and persistence.
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Confirmed means the action was found at its source.
Confirmed: the action is in a primary source, such as a filing, a court record or the actor’s own statement.
Reported: independent outlets report it, but its own source has not confirmed it yet. The card’s record then says what would confirm it, and by when.
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Until now and Now say what changed.
Two short lines: how things stood before the action, and how they stand after it. "Why it matters" follows, in a few sentences.
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Established is fact. Not established never is.
Established lists what the evidence shows. Not established lists what it does not, such as a price nobody published or a date nobody gave.
The headline and the summary never state as fact anything listed under Not established.
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What to watch says what would prove the reading wrong.
Each card names events that would weaken its reading, and events that would strengthen it, most with a date to look by.
It is a dated test that would show the reading was wrong. As those dates arrive, calls will be checked against them in public.
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Every source is named and linked.
Each source is listed by name with its site, and opens the page itself, so you can check the ground under every line.
Every card also has a public record: its address with .json added, open for anyone to cite.
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Your call comes last, and it is final.
At the end of a card you can say which explanation you believe. Everything else on the card is there to read first, and you see how others called it only after your call is in.
A call cannot be changed or taken back, because calls are checked later against what happens.
Found something wrong on a card? Corrections are dated and shown on the card.
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