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Film · 03:00

The room where agents are reviewed

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The film uses public evaluation documents to reconstruct the layers of review around an autonomous software system.

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The visible surface

Begin with the system in use, then pull back.

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Narration transcript

00:00Narrator

The visible interface is only the final surface of a longer chain of research, infrastructure, labor, and institutional decisions.

01:10Narrator

The film uses public evaluation documents to reconstruct the layers of review around an autonomous software system.

02:18Narrator

The next test is documented behavior, independently checkable evidence, and the people responsible when the demonstration becomes ordinary work.

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Sources and evidence

  1. Official public record ↗nist.gov · accessed 2026-07-13

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