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  "atlasRevision": "r0056",
  "updatedAt": "2026-09-02T16:21:12Z",
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      "id": "SPREV-2026-005",
      "objectId": "SCN-D22-004",
      "title": "Sovereignty Backlash",
      "objectType": "scenario",
      "domains": [
        "D22",
        "D21",
        "D09"
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      "state": "observed",
      "observation": "By June 2026 the European Commission's simplification tracker recorded full adoption of Omnibus I sustainability changes and multiple 2025-2026 omnibus acts, with an estimated EUR11.94 billion in recurring administrative-cost savings across the 2025 proposal set.",
      "date": "2026-06-29",
      "threshold": "Observed threshold is enacted rollback/simplification of reporting or due-diligence obligations across multiple legal packages, rather than a political promise alone.",
      "counter": "Simplification is not equivalent to reopened cross-border cloud access or wholesale localization repeal; several sovereignty and strategic-autonomy instruments remain or expanded.",
      "update": "Track implementing acts, realized burden savings and changes to localization/procurement restrictions; reclassify contested if compliance costs fail to fall or new mandates offset repeals.",
      "sourceUrls": [
        "https://commission.europa.eu/law/law-making-process/better-regulation/simplification-implementation-and-enforcement/simplification_en"
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      "claimIds": [],
      "probability": "not_assigned"
    },
    {
      "id": "SPREV-2026-011",
      "objectId": "WLD-D24-002",
      "title": "AI-enabled Cyberattack on Energy or Logistics",
      "objectType": "wildcard",
      "domains": [
        "D24",
        "D14",
        "D23",
        "D21"
      ],
      "state": "emerging",
      "observation": "Anthropic examined 832 banned accounts with sufficiently detailed malicious cyber activity from March 2025-March 2026: 67.3% used AI for malware writing and 6.5% for lateral movement; later-stage chaining and autonomy increased. The dataset does not document cross-sector propagation through energy or logistics.",
      "date": "2026-06-03",
      "threshold": "Move to observed when a verified incident report attributes materially autonomous AI exploit chaining to operational disruption in energy or logistics and documents propagation beyond the initial target.",
      "counter": "Vendor visibility covers its own banned accounts; most activity was preparatory, only 54/832 showed lateral movement, and sector-specific physical disruption is absent.",
      "update": "Review CISA/ENISA/sector-ISAC incident reports and vendor disclosures; upgrade only with affected assets, autonomy evidence and operational impact, not malware generation alone.",
      "sourceUrls": [
        "https://www.anthropic.com/news/AI-enabled-cyber-threats-mitre-attack"
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      "claimIds": [],
      "probability": "not_assigned"
    },
    {
      "id": "SPREV-2026-034",
      "objectId": "SCN-FIN-002",
      "title": "Financial Interoperability without Absorption",
      "objectType": "scenario",
      "domains": [
        "D08",
        "D09",
        "D13",
        "D14"
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      "state": "emerging",
      "observation": "BIS Project Agora demonstrated atomic settlement across currencies and jurisdictions in a prototype with more than 40 private-sector institutions and seven participating legal jurisdictions, while stating that further technical, operational and contractual work is needed and real-value testing would follow. Technical interoperability is advancing ahead of broad institutional absorption.",
      "date": "2026-05-27",
      "threshold": "Move to observed when multiple production rails multiply while cross-ledger exceptions, manual reconciliation, provider concentration or non-portable redress remain material in measured operations despite technical interoperability.",
      "counter": "Agora is one experimental prototype; it established legal feasibility in participating jurisdictions but did not report broad customer use, integration with production core systems or ongoing exception costs.",
      "update": "Review real-value tests, production integrations and CPMI harmonization metrics; upgrade only when operational fragmentation and adoption data coexist, and downgrade if portable finality, redress and reconciliation work across providers at scale.",
      "sourceUrls": [
        "https://www.bis.org/media-releases/20260527-project-agora-shows-how-tokenisation-can-improve-wholesale-cross-border-payments-work-will"
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      "claimIds": [],
      "probability": "not_assigned"
    },
    {
      "id": "SPREV-2026-040",
      "objectId": "SCN-GEO-002",
      "title": "Sovereign Language and Model Ecosystems",
      "objectType": "scenario",
      "domains": [
        "D03",
        "D06",
        "D09",
        "D11",
        "D12",
        "D16",
        "D20",
        "D22"
      ],
      "state": "observed",
      "observation": "India's Digital India BHASHINI Division reports that its national language DPI powers more than 800 government websites, processes over 15 million inferences daily and supports 36 Indian text and 23 Indian voice languages; a 2026 ministry agreement commits the parties to enabling and developing domain-specific AYUSH models, glossaries and datasets. Public-sector deployment of the base platform is operational, while the AYUSH extensions and comparative local-task or community-benefit outcomes are not yet demonstrated.",
      "date": "2026-05-14",
      "threshold": "Observed threshold is a nationally governed language-AI platform with disclosed recurring production inference, multi-language public-service deployment and an active domain-specific data/model program.",
      "counter": "Operator-reported sites and inferences do not show benchmark superiority, service completion, dialect fairness, corpus authorization, community review or sustainable funding.",
      "update": "Track audited task benchmarks, public-service completion and error rates, corpus rights and community review by language; downgrade to emerging if reported production cannot be independently reconciled or local outcomes fail.",
      "sourceUrls": [
        "https://www.pib.gov.in/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=2261568&lang=2&reg=3"
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      "claimIds": [],
      "probability": "not_assigned"
    },
    {
      "id": "SPREV-2026-035",
      "objectId": "SCN-FIN-003",
      "title": "Prevention and Resilience Finance versus Exclusion",
      "objectType": "scenario",
      "domains": [
        "D08",
        "D19",
        "D23",
        "D09"
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      "state": "emerging",
      "observation": "EIOPA reported that only 17% of surveyed respondents held property-damage coverage for natural catastrophes and described affordability, unclear terms and adverse claims experience as barriers; it also outlined proposed public-private EU reinsurance and disaster-fund pillars. The protection-gap and public-backstop sides are visible, but measured prevention-linked product outcomes are absent.",
      "date": "2026-04-16",
      "threshold": "Move to observed only when deployed prevention-linked insurance or resilience products publish measured prevention and coverage outcomes, with access, pricing and exclusion effects reported by risk and income segment.",
      "counter": "The 17% figure is survey-reported property coverage, not verified policy-level inclusion; proposed EU pillars are not enacted balance sheets, and the source does not test granular-pricing discrimination or prevention efficacy.",
      "update": "Track enacted EU/national schemes, coverage by income and risk segment, appeals, pricing and prevention-linked loss outcomes; reclassify contested if measurement or access effects diverge and downgrade if coverage gaps close without exclusion.",
      "sourceUrls": [
        "https://www.eiopa.europa.eu/insurance-protection-gaps-changing-climate-2026-04-16_en"
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      "claimIds": [],
      "probability": "not_assigned"
    },
    {
      "id": "SPREV-2026-014",
      "objectId": "SCN-D20-003",
      "title": "Identity Fortresses",
      "objectType": "scenario",
      "domains": [
        "D20",
        "D22",
        "D17",
        "D09"
      ],
      "state": "observed",
      "observation": "The European Union's Entry/Exit System became operational across all external border crossing points of 29 participating European countries on 10 April 2026, replacing passport stamps for covered short-stay non-EU travellers with electronic records that include fingerprints and facial images. This is deployed cross-border biometric surveillance, although it remains interoperable inside a regional legal framework rather than proof of globally separated identity blocs.",
      "date": "2026-04-10",
      "threshold": "Observed threshold is production deployment of mandatory biometric entry/exit recording across a multi-country border regime, not a proposal or limited pilot.",
      "counter": "The system is shared by 29 countries and governed by common EU rules, so it also demonstrates regional interoperability rather than technical separation among participating states.",
      "update": "Track operational incident reports, access expansions, appeal safeguards and interoperability with ETIAS; escalate the broader fortress scenario only if comparable regimes become mutually non-interoperable or cross-border recognition contracts.",
      "sourceUrls": [
        "https://home-affairs.ec.europa.eu/policies/schengen/smart-borders/entry-exit-system_en"
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      "claimIds": [],
      "probability": "not_assigned"
    },
    {
      "id": "SPREV-2026-002",
      "objectId": "SCN-D21-001",
      "title": "Augmented Productivity",
      "objectType": "scenario",
      "domains": [
        "D21",
        "D11",
        "D19"
      ],
      "state": "emerging",
      "observation": "Eurostat reports that 19.95% of EU enterprises with at least 10 workers used AI in 2025, up 6.47 percentage points from 2024; adoption was 17% for small, 30.36% for medium and 55.03% for large enterprises. Diffusion is rising, but the source does not establish task or total-factor productivity gains.",
      "date": "2026-03-26",
      "threshold": "Move to observed when broad SME AI use is accompanied by a statistically measured productivity gain in official firm-level or national productivity data, not adoption alone.",
      "counter": "The 38-point small-versus-large adoption gap and absence of productivity outcomes are consistent with uneven augmentation rather than economy-wide productivity acceleration.",
      "update": "Update annually with Eurostat ICT-use and productivity releases; downgrade if adoption plateaus or measured output per hour/TFP remains flat after composition adjustment.",
      "sourceUrls": [
        "https://doi.org/10.2785/9221093"
      ],
      "claimIds": [],
      "probability": "not_assigned"
    },
    {
      "id": "SPREV-2026-008",
      "objectId": "WLD-D24-008",
      "title": "Abrupt Earth-system Tipping Cascade",
      "objectType": "wildcard",
      "domains": [
        "D24",
        "D23",
        "D20"
      ],
      "state": "emerging",
      "observation": "WMO reports 2025 ocean heat content at the highest level in a 66-year record, glacier mass balance among the five most negative years, record-low Arctic annual maximum sea ice and global mean sea level near its record. Multiple monitored subsystems are stressed, but no abrupt causal tipping cascade is established.",
      "date": "2026-03-23",
      "threshold": "Move to observed only after independent observing systems document an abrupt, persistent regime shift in at least two linked Earth subsystems with evidence of causal propagation, not simultaneous adverse trends alone.",
      "counter": "Annual records and long-run trends can occur without crossing a tipping threshold; WMO reports indicators, not attribution of a cascade.",
      "update": "Review each WMO annual state report plus peer-reviewed attribution/tipping assessments; retain emerging unless discontinuity, persistence and cross-system linkage are all demonstrated.",
      "sourceUrls": [
        "https://wmo.int/sites/default/files/2026-03/State%20of%20the%20Climate%202025_1%20pager_final.pdf"
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      "claimIds": [],
      "probability": "not_assigned"
    },
    {
      "id": "SPREV-2026-036",
      "objectId": "SCN-MKT-001",
      "title": "Agent-readable Revenue Infrastructure",
      "objectType": "scenario",
      "domains": [
        "D01",
        "D02",
        "D17",
        "D19",
        "D10"
      ],
      "state": "emerging",
      "observation": "Google's protocol guide documents AP2 typed IntentMandate and PaymentMandate objects with configurable limits, explicit approval and a PaymentReceipt closing the audit trail, alongside UCP offer/order handling. This is machine-readable commerce infrastructure, but the example is demonstrative and supplies no transaction adoption or outcome evidence.",
      "date": "2026-03-18",
      "threshold": "Move to observed when independent merchant and payment deployments use current structured offers, signed mandates and receipts in recurring agent-prepared transactions and publish conversion, error, dispute and handoff outcomes.",
      "counter": "A first-party developer example and open protocol types do not establish interoperability across live providers, mass merchant support, current inventory accuracy, legal liability or economic usage.",
      "update": "Review UCP/AP2 repositories, payment-network adoption and merchant outcome studies quarterly; upgrade only with live cross-provider transactions and measured outcomes, and downgrade if implementations remain demos or incompatible forks.",
      "sourceUrls": [
        "https://developers.googleblog.com/developers-guide-to-ai-agent-protocols/"
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      "claimIds": [],
      "probability": "not_assigned"
    },
    {
      "id": "SPREV-2026-007",
      "objectId": "SCN-D23-002",
      "title": "Fast Generation, Slow Grid",
      "objectType": "scenario",
      "domains": [
        "D23",
        "D13",
        "D21"
      ],
      "state": "observed",
      "observation": "IEA Electricity 2026 reports record grid-connection queues worldwide and rising congestion-related curtailment while grid investment lags generation investment. This directly matches queue/curtailment signposts, though delivered-system cost effects remain jurisdiction-specific.",
      "date": "2026-02-06",
      "threshold": "Observed threshold is simultaneous authoritative evidence of record connection queues and rising congestion/curtailment, not capacity announcements alone.",
      "counter": "Regulatory queue reform, rapid grid-enhancing technologies and the Baltic synchronization demonstrate that constraints can be relieved; the source does not say every power system is worsening.",
      "update": "Track queue size and age, withdrawal-adjusted projects, curtailment share, transformer lead times and transmission commissioning annually; downgrade if queues and congestion fall together.",
      "sourceUrls": [
        "https://www.iea.org/reports/electricity-2026/grids"
      ],
      "claimIds": [],
      "probability": "not_assigned"
    },
    {
      "id": "SPREV-2026-016",
      "objectId": "SCN-D22-001",
      "title": "Interoperable Multipolarity",
      "objectType": "scenario",
      "domains": [
        "D22",
        "D13",
        "D09",
        "D14"
      ],
      "state": "emerging",
      "observation": "The standalone EU-Singapore Digital Trade Agreement entered into force on 1 February 2026 with rules intended to make cross-border digital transactions more predictable and to address unjustified barriers. It is a concrete bridge between two regulatory regions, but one bilateral agreement is not yet a global system of mutual recognition or certified interfaces.",
      "date": "2026-02-01",
      "threshold": "Move to observed when multiple cross-bloc agreements demonstrate implemented data, identity, payment or conformity interfaces with measured cross-border use, not text adoption alone.",
      "counter": "The agreement is bilateral, and the official announcement does not report transaction volumes, mutual-recognition outcomes or resilience under sanctions and export controls.",
      "update": "Track implementing committees, disputes, measured digital-trade use and replication in other bloc-spanning agreements; downgrade if implementation stalls or exceptions dominate practical exchange.",
      "sourceUrls": [
        "https://policy.trade.ec.europa.eu/news/eu-singapore-digital-trade-agreement-enters-force-2026-02-02_en"
      ],
      "claimIds": [],
      "probability": "not_assigned"
    },
    {
      "id": "SPREV-2026-032",
      "objectId": "SCN-QUBE-004",
      "title": "Sovereign and Local Agent Stacks",
      "objectType": "scenario",
      "domains": [
        "D10",
        "D11",
        "D12",
        "D13",
        "D14",
        "D22"
      ],
      "state": "emerging",
      "observation": "The EU formally amended the EuroHPC framework to support AI Gigafactories and quantum infrastructure, extending the public sovereign-compute program beyond existing AI Factories. The legal and investment platform is material, but it does not establish utilization, competitive local models or better task outcomes.",
      "date": "2026-01-19",
      "threshold": "Move to observed in a region when sovereign compute reports sustained external utilization and locally governed models beat or match relevant global baselines on declared local-language or regulated-sector tasks in production.",
      "counter": "An adopted infrastructure mandate and planned calls are capacity commitments; they do not show installed capacity, user uptake, energy/talent sufficiency or task-level outcome parity.",
      "update": "Review EuroHPC commissioning, utilization and model-evaluation disclosures semiannually; upgrade by region and task only on operational metrics, and downgrade where capacity remains delayed or underused.",
      "sourceUrls": [
        "https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/news/eurohpc-regulation-amended-strengthen-europes-ai-and-quantum-capabilities"
      ],
      "claimIds": [],
      "probability": "not_assigned"
    },
    {
      "id": "SPREV-2026-039",
      "objectId": "SCN-GEO-001",
      "title": "DPI and Local Rail Convergence",
      "objectType": "scenario",
      "domains": [
        "D02",
        "D07",
        "D08",
        "D10",
        "D12",
        "D13",
        "D14",
        "D19"
      ],
      "state": "emerging",
      "observation": "NPCI's platform statistics record 62.803 billion UPI transactions in fiscal 2025-26 Q3, while USSD 2.0 recorded only 0.22 million in the same period. The payment rail has population-scale use, but this source does not establish convergence with identity, open-finance service initiation, interoperable offers and receipts or inclusion across access modes.",
      "date": "2025-12-31",
      "threshold": "Move to observed in a market when payment, consent or identity, service-initiation, structured offer/mandate and dispute-receipt layers interoperate in production and show sustained merchant use and governed redress.",
      "counter": "High UPI volume is one rail layer; the tiny USSD volume cautions against inferring assisted-channel inclusion, and the aggregate table lacks merchant, fraud, dispute and open-finance linkage outcomes.",
      "update": "Review NPCI/RBI rail, merchant, dispute and Account Aggregator metrics by country and quarter; upgrade only on full-stack operation and downgrade where fraud, API quality, consent or merchant economics fail.",
      "sourceUrls": [
        "https://www.npci.org.in/uploads/RETAIL_PAYMENTS_STATISTICS_1_xlsx_de91fc7ec0.pdf"
      ],
      "claimIds": [],
      "probability": "not_assigned"
    },
    {
      "id": "SPREV-2026-041",
      "objectId": "SCN-GEO-003",
      "title": "Super-app and Messaging-native Fragmentation",
      "objectType": "scenario",
      "domains": [
        "D01",
        "D02",
        "D06",
        "D07",
        "D10",
        "D15",
        "D17"
      ],
      "state": "observed",
      "observation": "Tencent reports an integrated Weixin stack spanning chat, search, Official Accounts, Mini Programs, Mini Shops and payments; its investor materials state that Mini Programs facilitated more than RMB8 trillion GMV in 2024. This meets the platform-contained service-and-transaction signpost in China for that disclosed period, while later growth and cross-platform portability are not evidenced by this source.",
      "date": "2025-12-22",
      "threshold": "Observed threshold is a platform-owner primary record showing messaging-native discovery, service and payment containers with sustained material transaction value, not user or feature counts alone.",
      "counter": "Tencent's own investor presentation is not independently audited channel attribution; the GMV is facilitated rather than platform revenue and does not quantify agent commerce, portability or the open web's counter-share.",
      "update": "Review Tencent filings and platform rules quarterly for GMV, service use, AI-agent access and portability; downgrade if in-container transactions materially retreat or cross-platform/open-web task share demonstrably rises.",
      "sourceUrls": [
        "https://static.www.tencent.com/uploads/2025/12/22/de2e3dc92e14893f5d7b9d1565845a7f.pdf"
      ],
      "claimIds": [],
      "probability": "not_assigned"
    },
    {
      "id": "SPREV-2026-022",
      "objectId": "WLD-D24-006",
      "title": "Rapid AI Productivity Surge",
      "objectType": "wildcard",
      "domains": [
        "D24",
        "D21",
        "D11",
        "D19"
      ],
      "state": "emerging",
      "observation": "An OECD 2025 SME review reports that generative-AI-using SMEs more often reported performance benefits when applying it to core tasks and that 39% of using SMEs that recently faced a skills gap said it helped compensate. These are self-reported task benefits and diffusion evidence, not independently measured total-factor productivity or an economy-wide surge.",
      "date": "2025-12-16",
      "threshold": "Move to observed only when official or independently audited firm-level panels show broad SME diffusion together with sustained labour-productivity or TFP gains and new-firm formation.",
      "counter": "The evidence is self-reported, conditional on current users and does not establish causality, aggregate productivity or distribution of gains.",
      "update": "Review OECD firm-level productivity work and national business panels; downgrade if adoption rises while measured output per hour and entry rates remain flat.",
      "sourceUrls": [
        "https://www.oecd.org/content/dam/oecd/en/publications/reports/2025/12/ai-adoption-by-small-and-medium-sized-enterprises_9c48eae6/426399c1-en.pdf"
      ],
      "claimIds": [],
      "probability": "not_assigned"
    },
    {
      "id": "SPREV-2026-023",
      "objectId": "WLD-D24-007",
      "title": "AI Investment or Compute Bubble Bursts",
      "objectType": "wildcard",
      "domains": [
        "D24",
        "D08",
        "D21",
        "D13"
      ],
      "state": "not_observed",
      "observation": "The IMF's October 2025 Global Financial Stability Report found stretched US equity valuation and historically high concentration in mega-cap IT and AI-related firms, while warning that unmet return expectations could trigger a sharp correction. It documented vulnerability rather than a burst: margins remained high and the required joint deterioration in compute utilization, credit and unit economics was not shown.",
      "date": "2025-10-14",
      "threshold": "Move to observed only when compute utilization, provider unit economics and credit conditions deteriorate together with material capacity cancellation or provider restructuring.",
      "counter": "The IMF described a conditional risk, not a realized systemic correction, and reported continued AI-related capital investment and strong incumbent profit margins.",
      "update": "Review provider filings, data-centre utilization, cancellations, spreads and restructuring; escalate only on correlated operating and financing stress, not valuation volatility alone.",
      "sourceUrls": [
        "https://www.imf.org/-/media/Files/Publications/GFSR/2025/October/English/text.ashx"
      ],
      "claimIds": [],
      "probability": "not_assigned"
    },
    {
      "id": "SPREV-2026-033",
      "objectId": "SCN-FIN-001",
      "title": "Regulated Programmable Finance",
      "objectType": "scenario",
      "domains": [
        "D08",
        "D09",
        "D13",
        "D19",
        "D21"
      ],
      "state": "emerging",
      "observation": "The ECB's digital-euro innovation platform tested conditional payments and structured electronic receipts in a simulated environment with almost 70 market participants. It supplies regulated programmable-payment primitives, while the ECB explicitly says the ideas remain experimental and issuance is undecided.",
      "date": "2025-09-26",
      "threshold": "Move to observed when a licensed rail executes recurring real-value conditional payments with machine-readable mandates and receipts, auditable human approval where required, portable redress and published economic usage.",
      "counter": "Simulation success does not demonstrate legal issuance, production scale, user demand, cross-provider portability, dispute resolution or reconciliation savings.",
      "update": "Review ECB legislation, pilot and transaction disclosures quarterly; upgrade only after real-value recurring use under an adopted rulebook, and downgrade if the project remains experimental or usage is immaterial.",
      "sourceUrls": [
        "https://www.ecb.europa.eu/press/pr/date/2025/html/ecb.pr250926_1~99b4b5b526.en.html"
      ],
      "claimIds": [],
      "probability": "not_assigned"
    },
    {
      "id": "SPREV-2026-027",
      "objectId": "SCN-D24-002",
      "title": "Demo-rich, Deployment-poor",
      "objectType": "scenario",
      "domains": [
        "D24",
        "D21",
        "D13",
        "D23"
      ],
      "state": "observed",
      "observation": "The IEA's Global Hydrogen Review 2025 reduced potential 2030 low-emissions hydrogen output from announced projects from 49 to 37 million tonnes per year after delays and cancellations; projects with final investment decisions represented only 9% of the pipeline. This is a measured announcement-to-commitment gap in one frontier sector, not a verdict on every frontier technology.",
      "date": "2025-09-12",
      "threshold": "Observed threshold is a sector-wide primary tracker showing repeated cancellations or delays and a single-digit committed share of an announced deployment pipeline.",
      "counter": "Committed low-emissions production is still projected to grow fivefold by 2030 and final-investment-decision projects increased, so deployment is slow rather than absent.",
      "update": "Review annual IEA project-status and firm-offtake data; downgrade for hydrogen if committed capacity, operation and firm demand rise materially, and assess other technologies separately.",
      "sourceUrls": [
        "https://www.iea.org/reports/global-hydrogen-review-2025/executive-summary"
      ],
      "claimIds": [],
      "probability": "not_assigned"
    },
    {
      "id": "SPREV-2026-013",
      "objectId": "SCN-D20-002",
      "title": "Synthetic Solitude",
      "objectType": "scenario",
      "domains": [
        "D20",
        "D11",
        "D15",
        "D17"
      ],
      "state": "emerging",
      "observation": "The US Federal Trade Commission issued compulsory information orders to seven providers of consumer-facing AI companion chatbots concerning safety testing, negative effects on children and teens, disclosures and handling of personal information. The inquiry confirms regulatory concern and broad market presence, but publishes neither sustained-use rates nor evidence that companion use displaces human relationships.",
      "date": "2025-09-11",
      "threshold": "Move to observed only when representative longitudinal evidence shows sustained companion use displacing measurable human contact or when a health or service system formally adopts AI companionship as a substitute for human support.",
      "counter": "A Section 6(b) inquiry is fact-finding rather than a finding of harm, dependency, displacement or regulatory violation.",
      "update": "Review when the FTC publishes inquiry findings or when independent longitudinal usage-and-connection outcomes become available; downgrade if companion systems consistently increase durable human support without dependency signals.",
      "sourceUrls": [
        "https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2025/09/ftc-launches-inquiry-ai-chatbots-acting-companions"
      ],
      "claimIds": [],
      "probability": "not_assigned"
    },
    {
      "id": "SPREV-2026-015",
      "objectId": "SCN-D21-002",
      "title": "Winner Takes Infrastructure",
      "objectType": "scenario",
      "domains": [
        "D21",
        "D11",
        "D13",
        "D08"
      ],
      "state": "observed",
      "observation": "The UK Competition and Markets Authority's final cloud-services market investigation found adverse effects on competition and recommended prioritising strategic-market-status investigations of the two largest providers, Microsoft and AWS. This is an official competition finding consistent with durable infrastructure concentration, while the proceeding does not establish that open models or portable evaluation layers cannot mitigate application-level lock-in.",
      "date": "2025-07-31",
      "threshold": "Observed threshold is a final competition-authority finding that named hyperscale providers hold positions warranting targeted market-power investigation, beyond market-share anecdotes.",
      "counter": "The CMA subsequently recorded provider steps on interoperability and egress fees, and a competition finding is not proof that every customer or downstream AI workload is locked in.",
      "update": "Review after any strategic-market-status decisions and measure realised switching, multi-cloud portability and egress costs; downgrade if comparable outcomes become routinely portable across providers.",
      "sourceUrls": [
        "https://www.gov.uk/cma-cases/cloud-services-market-investigation"
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      "claimIds": [],
      "probability": "not_assigned"
    },
    {
      "id": "SPREV-2026-038",
      "objectId": "SCN-MKT-003",
      "title": "Zero-click Walled Discovery and Causal Measurement",
      "objectType": "scenario",
      "domains": [
        "D01",
        "D17",
        "D19",
        "D12"
      ],
      "state": "emerging",
      "observation": "Cloudflare introduced Pay Per Crawl so site owners can allow, charge or block AI crawlers, returning HTTP 402 for paid access and 403 when blocked. This is a concrete shift toward licensed or closed source access, but the provider announcement does not measure user zero-click behavior, publisher revenue recovery or adoption of causal measurement.",
      "date": "2025-07-01",
      "threshold": "Move to observed when independent traffic data show declining qualified referral alongside rising answer-interface usage and material publisher blocking/licensing, while advertisers increase calibrated holdout or MMM use in operations.",
      "counter": "Product availability on one infrastructure provider is not publisher adoption, crawler payment volume, click-through decline, source monetization or independently audited measurement behavior.",
      "update": "Review Cloudflare adoption disclosures, publisher access policies, referral panels and advertiser experiment/MMM usage quarterly; upgrade only when closure and measurement shifts are jointly observed and downgrade if open referrals and source economics recover.",
      "sourceUrls": [
        "https://blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-pay-per-crawl/"
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      "claimIds": [],
      "probability": "not_assigned"
    },
    {
      "id": "SPREV-2026-025",
      "objectId": "WLD-D24-010",
      "title": "Trust Renaissance through Local Institutions",
      "objectType": "wildcard",
      "domains": [
        "D24",
        "D20",
        "D18",
        "D17"
      ],
      "state": "not_observed",
      "observation": "OECD Government at a Glance 2025 reports that people generally trust local government more than national government and that perceived voice in local matters has the strongest modeled association with local-government trust. The underlying 2023 cross-sectional survey is a baseline and driver analysis, not evidence of a sustained rise in local participation or trust.",
      "date": "2025-06-19",
      "threshold": "Move to observed when repeated representative surveys and administrative participation measures show sustained local gains across multiple jurisdictions without rising exclusion.",
      "counter": "Cross-sectional associations do not show that participation caused trust or that either metric increased over time; country variation remains substantial.",
      "update": "Review the next OECD Trust Survey wave and matched local participation series; escalate only on repeated outcome gains, downgrade if voice and trust stagnate or improve only among already-engaged groups.",
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        "https://www.oecd.org/en/publications/government-at-a-glance-2025_0efd0bcd-en/full-report/drivers-of-trust-in-public-institutions_fe2b7742.html"
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      "claimIds": [],
      "probability": "not_assigned"
    },
    {
      "id": "SPREV-2026-019",
      "objectId": "SCN-D23-003",
      "title": "Fortress Energy",
      "objectType": "scenario",
      "domains": [
        "D23",
        "D22",
        "D21"
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      "state": "observed",
      "observation": "The European Commission designated 47 EU projects as Strategic Projects under the Critical Raw Materials Act on 25 March 2025 and 13 projects outside the EU on 4 June 2025, coupling faster permitting and finance support to strategic extraction, processing, recycling and substitution. This is implemented security-led industrial policy, although the external-project list also shows diversification rather than autarky.",
      "date": "2025-06-04",
      "threshold": "Observed threshold is formal project designation with preferential permitting or finance under a strategic-resource law, not an aspirational supply-chain statement.",
      "counter": "Thirteen selected projects are outside the EU and are framed as mutually beneficial partnerships; the measure does not demonstrate fragmented energy trade or divergent emissions outcomes.",
      "update": "Track financing, permits, offtake and delivered capacity by geography; escalate if domestic-content or security conditions materially exclude cross-border suppliers, downgrade if diversified integration dominates.",
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        "https://single-market-economy.ec.europa.eu/sectors/raw-materials/areas-specific-interest/critical-raw-materials/strategic-projects-under-crma/selected-projects_en"
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      "claimIds": [],
      "probability": "not_assigned"
    },
    {
      "id": "SPREV-2026-004",
      "objectId": "SCN-D22-003",
      "title": "Crisis Federalism",
      "objectType": "scenario",
      "domains": [
        "D22",
        "D21",
        "D18"
      ],
      "state": "observed",
      "observation": "The EU Council adopted SAFE, an EU-level instrument offering up to EUR150 billion in long-maturity loans tied in principle to common procurement by at least two participating countries. The regulation entered into force on 29 May 2025.",
      "date": "2025-05-29",
      "threshold": "Observed threshold is an enacted regional balance-sheet instrument with explicit multi-country procurement eligibility, not merely a proposal or summit statement.",
      "counter": "A temporary exception permits single-state procurement, and adoption does not prove loan drawdown, delivery, interoperability or permanence beyond the security crisis.",
      "update": "Track approved national plans, disbursements, share of genuinely joint contracts and successor-budget treatment; reconsider if utilization is low or procurement remains nationally fragmented.",
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        "https://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/press/press-releases/2025/05/27/safe-council-adopts-150-billion-boost-for-joint-procurement-on-european-security-and-defence/"
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      "claimIds": [],
      "probability": "not_assigned"
    },
    {
      "id": "SPREV-2026-001",
      "objectId": "SCN-D20-001",
      "title": "Connected Pluralism",
      "objectType": "scenario",
      "domains": [
        "D20",
        "D22"
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      "state": "emerging",
      "observation": "The 78th World Health Assembly adopted WHA78.9, urging member states to integrate social connection into health policies and asking WHO to advance evidence, measurement and implementation. This institutionalizes the construct, but does not yet show improved local trust or a recurring global indicator series.",
      "date": "2025-05-27",
      "threshold": "Move to observed when at least three national health/statistical systems publish recurring, comparable social-connection indicators or formally place them in health outcome frameworks.",
      "counter": "The resolution is policy intent; it does not itself demonstrate implementation, causal health gains, civic participation or improved local trust.",
      "update": "Review on WHO publication of a Global Index/core measurement module or on documented national-series adoption; downgrade if implementation reporting remains absent at the next WHA review.",
      "sourceUrls": [
        "https://apps.who.int/gb/ebwha/pdf_files/WHA78-REC1/A78_REC1_Interactive_en.pdf"
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    },
    {
      "id": "SPREV-2026-017",
      "objectId": "SCN-D22-002",
      "title": "Stack Blocs",
      "objectType": "scenario",
      "domains": [
        "D22",
        "D13",
        "D14",
        "D17",
        "D08"
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      "state": "contested",
      "observation": "The US Bureau of Industry and Security rescinded the tiered AI Diffusion Rule before its compliance date while simultaneously issuing stronger guidance on PRC advanced-computing chips, AI-model training and diversion risks. The same action weakens evidence for a universal country-tier stack while strengthening evidence for adversary-specific compute separation.",
      "date": "2025-05-13",
      "threshold": "Move to observed when at least two core operating stacks such as compute, cloud, payments or media become practically non-portable across major blocs under implemented rules.",
      "counter": "Rescission removed a proposed broad country-tier regime and explicitly retained access for trusted partners, so this event is not evidence of complete bloc separation.",
      "update": "Review the replacement rule and enforcement data; escalate if controls expand from named adversaries to routine interoperability, downgrade if certified partner routes preserve practical portability.",
      "sourceUrls": [
        "https://www.bis.gov/press-release/department-commerce-rescinds-biden-era-artificial-intelligence-diffusion-rule-strengthens-chip-related"
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      "claimIds": [],
      "probability": "not_assigned"
    },
    {
      "id": "SPREV-2026-021",
      "objectId": "WLD-D24-003",
      "title": "Synthetic-biological Incident",
      "objectType": "wildcard",
      "domains": [
        "D24",
        "D04",
        "D09",
        "D14"
      ],
      "state": "emerging",
      "observation": "NIH requirements effective 26 April 2025 require NIH-funded procurement of synthetic nucleic acids and benchtop synthesis equipment to use providers or manufacturers following sequence and customer screening practices. This operationalises a control point prompted by misuse risk, but the notice reports no verified screening bypass or unusual biological cluster.",
      "date": "2025-04-26",
      "threshold": "Move to observed only on a verified screening bypass, audit failure linked to acquisition, or unusual cluster with authoritative evidence of synthetic origin.",
      "counter": "The policy is a preventive procurement control within NIH-funded work and is evidence of mitigation capacity, not evidence that a synthetic-biological incident occurred.",
      "update": "Review compliance audits, reported illegitimate orders and the revised federal screening framework; downgrade if screening coverage becomes comprehensive and no bypass evidence emerges.",
      "sourceUrls": [
        "https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-25-012.html"
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      "claimIds": [],
      "probability": "not_assigned"
    },
    {
      "id": "SPREV-2026-003",
      "objectId": "SCN-D21-003",
      "title": "Fragmented Stagnation",
      "objectType": "scenario",
      "domains": [
        "D21",
        "D22"
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      "state": "contested",
      "observation": "The IMF April 2025 reference forecast cut 2025 global growth to 2.8% and trade growth to 1.7% amid tariff escalation and uncertainty, but the report's own alternative paths depend on policy assumptions and do not establish persistent joint investment-and-trade stagnation.",
      "date": "2025-04-22",
      "threshold": "Move to observed only if realized global trade volume and fixed investment both contract or materially undershoot baseline for at least two consecutive reporting periods while fragmentation measures remain elevated.",
      "counter": "The IMF explicitly presents scenario ranges; its tariff-excluding path placed 2025 growth near 3.2%, showing sensitivity to policy reversal rather than a locked regime.",
      "update": "Reassess at each WEO/database release against realized trade, investment and energy-deployment data; downgrade to not_observed if trade and investment recover together.",
      "sourceUrls": [
        "https://www.imf.org/en/publications/weo/issues/2025/04/22/world-economic-outlook-april-2025"
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      "claimIds": [],
      "probability": "not_assigned"
    },
    {
      "id": "SPREV-2026-029",
      "objectId": "SCN-QUBE-001",
      "title": "Verifiable Autonomous Work Cells",
      "objectType": "scenario",
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        "D10",
        "D11",
        "D12",
        "D13",
        "D14",
        "D18"
      ],
      "state": "emerging",
      "observation": "Google released the open A2A protocol with Agent Cards for capability discovery, enterprise authentication and authorization, and explicit task/state handling for long-running, human-in-the-loop work. These are enabling primitives for bounded work cells, but the release provides neither canonical action receipts nor representative outcome and safety-gate results.",
      "date": "2025-04-09",
      "threshold": "Move to observed when at least three independent production deployments represent work order, scoped authority, evidence, commit receipt and evaluation result as auditable objects and pass declared net-outcome and safety gates.",
      "counter": "Protocol publication and partner support demonstrate interface formation, not production reliability, causal receipt integrity, accountable ownership or net business benefit.",
      "update": "Review A2A/MCP specifications and independently documented deployments quarterly; upgrade only on complete control-object coverage plus measured outcomes, and downgrade after repeated authorization or receipt-integrity failures.",
      "sourceUrls": [
        "https://developers.googleblog.com/en/a2a-a-new-era-of-agent-interoperability/"
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      "claimIds": [],
      "probability": "not_assigned"
    },
    {
      "id": "SPREV-2026-018",
      "objectId": "SCN-D23-001",
      "title": "Electrified Resilience",
      "objectType": "scenario",
      "domains": [
        "D23",
        "D13",
        "D19",
        "D22"
      ],
      "state": "contested",
      "observation": "The International Energy Agency tracked 1,650 GW of advanced solar and wind projects awaiting grid connections in 2024 while documenting 1.5 million kilometres of new transmission built over the preceding decade. Expansion and a large connection backlog coexist, so coordinated electrified resilience is progressing but not yet keeping pace with generation.",
      "date": "2025-02-25",
      "threshold": "Move to observed when grid additions, storage and connection throughput reduce queues and curtailment across multiple regions while reliability or outage metrics improve.",
      "counter": "The 1,650 GW queue is direct evidence that generation deployment outpaces transmission; kilometres built do not by themselves show resilience, affordability or climate adaptation.",
      "update": "Update with annual IEA grid investment, queue, curtailment and reliability data; downgrade if waiting capacity and congestion continue rising faster than connections.",
      "sourceUrls": [
        "https://www.iea.org/reports/building-the-future-transmission-grid/executive-summary"
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      "claimIds": [],
      "probability": "not_assigned"
    },
    {
      "id": "SPREV-2026-031",
      "objectId": "SCN-QUBE-003",
      "title": "Deterministic Automation Backlash",
      "objectType": "scenario",
      "domains": [
        "D10",
        "D11",
        "D18",
        "D19"
      ],
      "state": "contested",
      "observation": "OpenAI's SWE-Lancer evaluation used more than 1,400 real freelance software-engineering tasks with end-to-end tests and reported that frontier models were still unable to solve the majority. The result supports retaining deterministic baselines and bounded autonomy, but it does not show organizations actually rolling back autonomy tiers.",
      "date": "2025-02-18",
      "threshold": "Move to observed for a workflow when representative production comparisons show deterministic or copilot-only systems outperform agent loops on accepted output after review time, defects, reversals and liability cost, followed by a documented autonomy rollback.",
      "counter": "A benchmark failure rate is not a production cost comparison; updated models, scaffolds and workflow selection can change results, and the source records capability limits rather than an enterprise backlash.",
      "update": "Review updated SWE-Lancer results and controlled production evaluations by workflow; upgrade only with net-outcome superiority plus an operational rollback, and retire per workflow after repeatable bounded-agent superiority.",
      "sourceUrls": [
        "https://openai.com/index/swe-lancer/"
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      "claimIds": [],
      "probability": "not_assigned"
    },
    {
      "id": "SPREV-2026-037",
      "objectId": "SCN-MKT-002",
      "title": "Synthetic Sameness and Human Premium",
      "objectType": "scenario",
      "domains": [
        "D01",
        "D06",
        "D16",
        "D20"
      ],
      "state": "emerging",
      "observation": "The U.S. Copyright Office concluded that wholly AI-generated material is not copyrightable and that AI used to assist rather than replace human creativity does not remove protection. This creates a concrete rights distinction around human contribution, but it does not demonstrate a consumer price premium, stronger memory or declining marginal lift from synthetic variants.",
      "date": "2025-01-29",
      "threshold": "Move to observed when controlled market evidence across at least two categories shows identifiable human-authored, live or provenance-verified offerings sustain higher willingness to pay, memory or trust after controlling for quality and brand.",
      "counter": "Copyright eligibility is a legal boundary, not evidence of market preference; AI-assisted works can remain protected and high-volume synthetic content may still perform or be substantially human-authored.",
      "update": "Review copyright guidance, provenance adoption and category-level experiments annually; upgrade only on controlled demand or brand-outcome evidence and downgrade if synthetic scale sustains distinctiveness and trust without added rights burden.",
      "sourceUrls": [
        "https://www.copyright.gov/ai/Copyright-and-Artificial-Intelligence-Part-2-Copyrightability-Report.pdf"
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      "claimIds": [],
      "probability": "not_assigned"
    },
    {
      "id": "SPREV-2026-030",
      "objectId": "SCN-QUBE-002",
      "title": "Agent Marketplace without Accountability",
      "objectType": "scenario",
      "domains": [
        "D10",
        "D13",
        "D14",
        "D18"
      ],
      "state": "emerging",
      "observation": "NIST/CAISI found that tool-using agents remained vulnerable to indirect prompt injection: across five custom injection tasks the average attack success rate was 57% on one attempt and 80% over 25 attempts. This demonstrates an accountability-relevant activation risk, but not marketplace-scale disputes or unsigned ownership chains.",
      "date": "2025-01-17",
      "threshold": "Move to observed when a cross-organization agent catalog or marketplace has documented incidents involving opaque delegation, confused-deputy execution, unscoped credentials or disputed liability without effective owner and revocation metadata.",
      "counter": "The experiments used simulated AgentDojo environments and selected attacks; they do not measure marketplace adoption, signed provenance, credential scope in production or actual loss incidence.",
      "update": "Review NIST/CAISI, incident databases and marketplace governance releases quarterly; upgrade only with attributable production incidents and downgrade if portable identity, liability and revocation controls become operational defaults.",
      "sourceUrls": [
        "https://www.nist.gov/news-events/news/2025/01/technical-blog-strengthening-ai-agent-hijacking-evaluations"
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      "claimIds": [],
      "probability": "not_assigned"
    },
    {
      "id": "SPREV-2026-006",
      "objectId": "SCN-D23-004",
      "title": "Climate Triage",
      "objectType": "scenario",
      "domains": [
        "D23",
        "D08",
        "D20"
      ],
      "state": "observed",
      "observation": "US Treasury's Federal Insurance Office analyzed more than 246 million homeowners policies from over 330 insurers for 2018-2022 and found insurance increasingly costly and less available, with higher nonrenewal rates in ZIP codes with the highest expected climate-related losses.",
      "date": "2025-01-16",
      "threshold": "Observed threshold is a large official policy-level dataset showing availability withdrawal/nonrenewal covarying with modeled climate peril, not isolated anecdotes or only premium inflation.",
      "counter": "The report excludes flood insurance, ends in 2022 and does not show that credit has withdrawn or that adaptation capital systematically favors high-value assets.",
      "update": "Update when FIO/state regulators extend policy-year coverage and when mortgage denial, property-value or adaptation-allocation data can be joined; downgrade if availability normalizes in high-risk ZIP codes.",
      "sourceUrls": [
        "https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/jy2791"
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      "claimIds": [],
      "probability": "not_assigned"
    },
    {
      "id": "SPREV-2026-009",
      "objectId": "SCN-D24-004",
      "title": "Frontier Nationalism",
      "objectType": "scenario",
      "domains": [
        "D24",
        "D22",
        "D21"
      ],
      "state": "observed",
      "observation": "On 15 January 2025 US BIS issued two additional rules tightening advanced-computing semiconductor controls, foundry due diligence and the Entity List, explicitly updating prior controls and restricting diversion to PRC-linked destinations.",
      "date": "2025-01-15",
      "threshold": "Observed threshold is a legally effective broadening of frontier-technology export controls covering products, transaction diligence or entities beyond the prior rule set.",
      "counter": "One jurisdiction's controls do not by themselves prove falling global talent mobility or multiplication of parallel facilities and standards; licenses and authorized destinations preserve some trade.",
      "update": "Track rule scope, allied convergence/divergence, licensing volumes, semiconductor equipment trade and duplicated facility buildout; downgrade if controls are materially rescinded.",
      "sourceUrls": [
        "https://www.bis.gov/press-release/commerce-strengthens-restrictions-advanced-computing-semiconductors-enhance-foundry-due-diligence-prevent"
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      "claimIds": [],
      "probability": "not_assigned"
    },
    {
      "id": "SPREV-2026-042",
      "objectId": "SCN-GEO-004",
      "title": "Assisted and Offline Digital Core",
      "objectType": "scenario",
      "domains": [
        "D02",
        "D07",
        "D08",
        "D10",
        "D14",
        "D15",
        "D18",
        "D19"
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      "state": "observed",
      "observation": "The Central Bank of Kenya reports 381,116 active mobile-money agents in December 2024, up 16.5% from 327,162 a year earlier, alongside average monthly mobile-money value of KSh724.8 billion. The physical cash-in/cash-out agent layer remained material and expanded rather than disappearing.",
      "date": "2024-12-31",
      "threshold": "Observed threshold is regulator-reported growth or sustained material scale in active physical agents together with recurring transaction value, demonstrating that digital service delivery still includes an assisted cash-conversion layer.",
      "counter": "Aggregate agent and transaction counts do not show rural coverage, unique active users, offline-resume superiority, voice/local-language completion, fraud, liquidity, redress or causal dependence on agents.",
      "update": "Review CBK monthly agent, cash-in/out, geographic, fraud and complaints data annually; downgrade per segment only if active-agent dependence and assisted-flow outcomes demonstrably recede while inclusive alternatives replace them.",
      "sourceUrls": [
        "https://www.centralbank.go.ke/uploads/banking_sector_annual_reports/1328318827_2024%20Annual%20Report.pdf"
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      "claimIds": [],
      "probability": "not_assigned"
    },
    {
      "id": "SPREV-2026-012",
      "objectId": "WLD-D24-004",
      "title": "Fault-tolerant Quantum Breakthrough",
      "objectType": "wildcard",
      "domains": [
        "D24",
        "D14",
        "D13"
      ],
      "state": "emerging",
      "observation": "Google Quantum AI demonstrated below-threshold surface-code memories on Willow: distance-5 and distance-7 codes with real-time decoding, with logical error suppressed as code distance increased. This satisfies a falling-logical-error signpost but not scalable manufacturing or repeatable useful-problem advantage.",
      "date": "2024-12-09",
      "threshold": "Move to observed only when below-threshold logical qubits scale to a reproducible system that completes a defined useful problem with independently auditable advantage and an engineering path to manufacturing.",
      "counter": "The experiment is a quantum-memory/error-correction milestone; it is not a cryptographically relevant or general fault-tolerant computer and does not demonstrate commercial fabrication yield.",
      "update": "Track replicated logical error per cycle, logical-qubit count, circuit depth, useful benchmark verification and manufacturing yield; remain emerging while only the first component is met.",
      "sourceUrls": [
        "https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-08449-y"
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      "claimIds": [],
      "probability": "not_assigned"
    },
    {
      "id": "SPREV-2026-024",
      "objectId": "WLD-D24-009",
      "title": "Global Standards Compromise for AI, Bio and Space",
      "objectType": "wildcard",
      "domains": [
        "D24",
        "D22",
        "D09",
        "D13"
      ],
      "state": "emerging",
      "observation": "Council of Europe Treaty No. 225 created a technology-neutral, legally binding AI framework open to European and participating non-European states and the EU, with entry into force requiring five ratifications including three Council of Europe members. It is a cross-border governance bridge for AI, but it does not yet supply implemented mutual recognition and does not jointly cover bio and space.",
      "date": "2024-09-05",
      "threshold": "Move to observed only when multiple blocs implement mutual recognition or certified interfaces across at least two of AI, bio and space, with evidence of practical market or research access.",
      "counter": "Signature or treaty text is not implementation; the instrument is AI-specific and its entry-into-force threshold alone does not prove deployed interfaces.",
      "update": "Track ratifications, Conference-of-Parties implementation and compatible bio/space standards; downgrade if participation fragments or certification lacks practical adoption.",
      "sourceUrls": [
        "https://www.coe.int/en-GB/web/conventions/full-list2?module=treaty-detail&treatynum=225"
      ],
      "claimIds": [],
      "probability": "not_assigned"
    },
    {
      "id": "SPREV-2026-028",
      "objectId": "SCN-D24-003",
      "title": "Secure Science",
      "objectType": "scenario",
      "domains": [
        "D24",
        "D09",
        "D14",
        "D22"
      ],
      "state": "emerging",
      "observation": "WHO's Technical Advisory Group reported work to operationalize its global responsible-life-sciences framework through four working groups. This is an international implementation signal for shared biorisk governance, but the record does not establish reciprocal safeguards, mutual recognition or expanded secure research exchange.",
      "date": "2024-06-25",
      "threshold": "Move to observed when at least two jurisdictions or major research-funding systems deploy reciprocal dual-use screening, provenance and audit controls that permit documented cross-border collaboration under a shared standard.",
      "counter": "A WHO advisory-group meeting and implementation workstreams are coordination inputs; they do not prove national deployment, interoperability, reciprocity or preserved research access.",
      "update": "Review WHO implementation reports and national policy instruments semiannually; upgrade only when deployed controls and cross-border recognition are both documented, and downgrade if controls primarily fragment scientific exchange.",
      "sourceUrls": [
        "https://www.who.int/publications/b/75217"
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      "claimIds": [],
      "probability": "not_assigned"
    },
    {
      "id": "SPREV-2026-010",
      "objectId": "WLD-D24-005",
      "title": "Fusion Pilot Meets Integrated Net-power and Availability Targets",
      "objectType": "wildcard",
      "domains": [
        "D24",
        "D23",
        "D21"
      ],
      "state": "not_observed",
      "observation": "ITER's 2024 baseline update moved deuterium-deuterium operation to 2035 and describes a later gradual path toward deuterium-tritium operations. It reports planning and risk reduction, not integrated net power, tritium self-sufficiency, materials durability or commercial availability.",
      "date": "2024-06-20",
      "threshold": "Move to observed only when one pilot simultaneously demonstrates net electric power to the grid, a closed/adequate tritium fuel cycle, specified materials lifetime and repeatable maintenance availability.",
      "counter": "The delayed baseline and staged DD-before-DT program show that subsystem/scientific milestones remain short of the integrated wildcard condition.",
      "update": "Review ITER baseline approvals and operating results plus any pilot claiming all four metrics; reject claims that substitute plasma gain or a single pulse for plant net power and availability.",
      "sourceUrls": [
        "https://www.iter.org/node/20687/updated-baseline-presented"
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      "claimIds": [],
      "probability": "not_assigned"
    },
    {
      "id": "SPREV-2026-020",
      "objectId": "WLD-D24-001",
      "title": "Cascading Solar Storm, Grid and Satellite Disruption",
      "objectType": "wildcard",
      "domains": [
        "D24",
        "D23",
        "D13",
        "D14"
      ],
      "state": "observed",
      "observation": "NASA's Community Coordinated Modeling Center records that the 10-13 May 2024 G5 storm coincided with power-grid irregularities, degraded GPS and HF radio, a temporary GOES-16 data outage, degraded Starlink service and other satellite effects. The named cross-infrastructure activation condition occurred, although US emergency and energy authorities reported no significant population impact.",
      "date": "2024-05-13",
      "threshold": "Observed threshold is an authoritative severe-space-weather event with contemporaneous anomalies in at least two of grid, navigation, communications or satellite operations.",
      "counter": "Mitigation prevented a population-scale grid or communications collapse, so the event does not validate the wildcard's worst-case duration or transformer-replacement assumptions.",
      "update": "Retain as an observed resilience test; update after official after-action reports, new severe events or demonstrated islanding and satellite-recovery improvements.",
      "sourceUrls": [
        "https://ccmc.gsfc.nasa.gov/storms/may2024/narrative/"
      ],
      "claimIds": [],
      "probability": "not_assigned"
    },
    {
      "id": "SPREV-2026-026",
      "objectId": "SCN-D24-001",
      "title": "Convergent Acceleration",
      "objectType": "scenario",
      "domains": [
        "D24",
        "D11",
        "D21",
        "D23"
      ],
      "state": "emerging",
      "observation": "The A-Lab primary study integrated ab-initio databases, literature-derived machine learning, active learning and robotics, and synthesized 36 of 57 targeted inorganic compounds during 17 days of continuous operation. It demonstrates a convergent AI-robotics-materials design-to-test loop, but on one bespoke platform and without evidence of replicated specialty-product manufacturing at scale.",
      "date": "2023-11-29",
      "threshold": "Move to observed when independent laboratories replicate cross-domain closed-loop results and at least one resulting specialty product advances into repeatable pilot production with quality and cost metrics.",
      "counter": "The study is a single-platform research demonstration with manually loaded consumables; target synthesis does not establish manufacturability, unit economics or cross-domain diffusion.",
      "update": "Track independent replications, uptime, yield, cost, technology transfer and products reaching pilot manufacturing; downgrade if results remain bespoke or fail reproduction.",
      "sourceUrls": [
        "https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06734-w"
      ],
      "claimIds": [],
      "probability": "not_assigned"
    }
  ]
}
