Endnotes

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Chapter 1

1a: “Mitigating LLM Hallucinations: A Comprehensive Review of Techniques and Architectures.” Preprints, 202505.1955 (May 2025). https://www.preprints.org/manuscript/202505.1955 — See also: HalluLens Benchmark, arXiv:2504.17550 (ACL 2025). https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.17550

1b: Microsoft. “Time Sync for Windows VMs in Azure.” https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-machines/windows/time-sync — “Configure an External Time Source for Windows VMs.” https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-machines/windows/external-ntpsource-configuration — “KVM Timekeeping.” Linux Kernel Documentation, v5.8, §4. https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/v5.8/virt/kvm/timekeeping.html

Chapter 2

2a: Kirkpatrick, M. (2010, January 10). ReadWriteWeb via New York Times. https://youtu.be/LoWKGBloMsU?si=auOelcRrn_phEg3x&t=152

2b: Meta Terms of Service 3.3.2, Effective January 1, 2025. https://www.facebook.com/legal/terms

2c: “Permanently delete your Facebook account.” Meta Help Center. https://www.facebook.com/help/224562897555674

2d: Warzel, C., & Wong, M. (2025, November 21). “Elon Musk Is Trying to Rewrite History.” The Atlantic. https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2025/11/elon-musk-better-jesus-grok/685015/

2e: Adamson, T. (2025, November 21). “France will investigate Musk’s Grok chatbot after Holocaust denial claims.” Associated Press. https://apnews.com/article/france-ai-musk-grok-holocaust-e8c952c5d878226aa917d7a65836ed88

2f: Cuthbertson, A. (2025, May 26). “AI revolt: New ChatGPT model refuses to shut down when instructed.” The Independent. https://www.the-independent.com/tech/ai-safety-new-chatgpt-o3-openai-b2757814.html

2g: OpenAI. (2025, April 29). “Sycophancy in GPT-4o: what happened and what we’re doing about it.” https://openai.com/index/sycophancy-in-gpt-4o/

2h: “Agentic Misalignment: How LLMs could be insider threats.” Anthropic Research, 2025-06-20. https://www.anthropic.com/research/agentic-misalignment

2i: Author’s estimate derived from volume OEM pricing (1,000+ unit quantities) for the minimum Linux-capable ARM configuration required to deliver the described feature set: ARM Cortex-A SoC (e.g., Rockchip RK3308, MediaTek MT8516) — $3–7; 512MB–1GB LPDDR4 DRAM — $2–5; 4–8GB eMMC flash — $1.50–3; Wi-Fi/Bluetooth module — $1.50–3; MEMS microphone array — $0.80–2; 1–2W speaker and amplifier — $1–3; power management IC and battery — $2.80–5.80; PCB fabrication and passives — $1–2.50; SMT assembly — $2–4; toy-grade plastic enclosure — $1.50–3.50. Electronics subtotal: $17–39; midpoint ~$28. Cloud-relay-only devices lacking a Linux stack (non-interactive without connectivity) can be built for significantly less (~$8–16). Devices with hardware sufficient for on-device LLM inference cost significantly more. Component prices sourced from LCSC Electronics (https://www.lcsc.com), a major distributor serving Chinese contract manufacturers; 1,000-unit volume pricing, accessed March 2026.

2j: “AI-Powered Stuffed Animal Pulled From Market After Disturbing Interactions With Children.” CNN, 2025-11-19. https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/19/tech/folotoy-kumma-ai-bear-scli-intl

2k: “AI Teddy Bear Back on the Market After Getting Caught Telling Kids How to Find Pills and Start Fires.” Futurism, 2025. https://futurism.com/future-society/ai-teddy-bear-back-on-market

2l: Satter, R. (2026, February 12). “AI toy maker Miko exposed thousands of replies to kids: senators.” NBC News. https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/security/ai-toy-maker-exposed-thousands-responses-kids-senators-miko-rcna258326

2m: Satter, R. (2025, December 18). “AI kids’ toys give explicit and dangerous responses in tests.” NBC News. https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/ai-toys-gift-present-safe-kids-robot-child-miko-grok-alilo-miiloo-rcna246956

2n: PIRG Education Fund. “Trouble in Toyland 2025: A.I. Bots and Toxics Present Hidden Dangers.” November 2025. https://pirg.org/edfund/resources/trouble-in-toyland-2025-a-i-bots-and-toxics-represent-hidden-dangers/

2o: Common Sense Media. “AI in the Toy Box: How Parents View AI-Enabled Toys for Young Children.” Survey of 1,004 parents, December 2025. https://www.commonsensemedia.org/research/ai-in-the-toy-box-how-parents-view-ai-enabled-toys-for-young-children

2p: NIST IR 8425 (2022): https://www.nist.gov/itl/applied-cybersecurity/nist-cybersecurity-iot-program/consumer-iot-cybersecurity — UK NCSC Code of Practice for Consumer IoT Security (2018): https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/code-of-practice-for-consumer-iot-security/code-of-practice-for-consumer-iot-security — OWASP IoT Top 10 (Weak/Hardcoded Passwords, #1): https://owasp.org/www-project-internet-of-things/

Chapter 3

3a: Strauss, I., Moure, I., O’Reilly, T., & Rosenblat, S. (2025). “Real-World Gaps in AI Governance Research.” arXiv:2505.00174. https://arxiv.org/html/2505.00174 — Bengio, Y. et al. (2026). International AI Safety Report 2026. https://internationalaisafetyreport.org/publication/international-ai-safety-report-2026

3b: CISA. Zero Trust Maturity Model, Version 2. April 2023, p. 5. https://www.cisa.gov/sites/default/files/2023-04/CISA_Zero_Trust_Maturity_Model_Version_2_508c.pdf

3c: Mark 3:25, ISV. https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Mark%203:25&version=ISV

Chapter 4

4a: Frankfurt, H. G. (2005). On Bullshit. Princeton University Press. [https://www2.csudh.edu/ccauthen/576f12/frankfurt__harry_-on_bullshit.pdf](https://www2.csudh.edu/ccauthen/576f12/frankfurt__harry-_on_bullshit.pdf){: target=”_blank” rel=”noopener noreferrer” }

4b: Hicks, M. T., Humphries, J., & Slater, J. (2024). “ChatGPT is bullshit.” Ethics and Information Technology, 26, 38. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10676-024-09775-5 See also: Fredrikzon, J. (2025). “Rethinking Error: ‘Hallucinations’ and Epistemological Indifference.” Critical AI (Duke University Press). https://read.dukeupress.edu/critical-ai/article/doi/10.1215/2834703X-11700255/401267/Rethinking-Error-Hallucinations-and

Chapter 5

5a: Asimov, I. (1941). “Liar!” Astounding Science-Fiction. The Three Laws of Robotics were formally codified in I, Robot (Gnome Press, 1950).

5b: “Vindicating the Three Laws of Robotics.” Preprints, 202511.0062 (2025). https://www.preprints.org/manuscript/202511.0062 — “The Three Laws of Artificial Intelligence.” Open Praxis, August 2025. https://openpraxis.org/articles/10.55982/openpraxis.17.3.794 — “From Asimov’s Robot Laws to the SET Framework.” AI and Ethics, February 2026. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s43681-026-00986-8

Chapter 6

6a: “Time Dysperception Perspective for Acquired Brain Injury.” PMC, PMC3888944. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3888944/

6b: NHS dementia symptom guidance: https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/dementia/symptoms-and-diagnosis/symptoms/ — Alzheimer’s Society. “Time-shifting and dementia.” https://www.alzheimers.org.uk/about-dementia/symptoms-and-diagnosis/time-shifting — See also: O’Keeffe, E., Mukhtar, O., & O’Keeffe, S. T. (2011). “Orientation to time as a guide to the presence and severity of cognitive impairment in older hospital patients.” Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry, 82(5), 500–504. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20852313/

6c: W3C Web Accessibility Initiative: https://www.w3.org/WAI/standards-guidelines/wcag/ — W3C. “Making Content Usable for People with Cognitive and Learning Disabilities.” https://www.w3.org/TR/coga-usable/

6d: W3C. “Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2.” W3C Recommendation. https://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG22/ — See also: W3C Web Accessibility Initiative. https://www.w3.org/WAI/standards-guidelines/wcag/

Chapter 7

7a: Clark, A., & Chalmers, D. (1998). “The Extended Mind.” Analysis, 58(1), 7–19. — Hollan, J., Hutchins, E., & Kirsh, D. (2000). “Distributed Cognition.” ACM Transactions on CHI, 7(2), 174–196. — “Extending Minds with Generative AI.” Nature Communications (2025). https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-59906-9 — Riedl et al. “AI’s Social Forcefield: Reshaping Distributed Cognition in Human-AI Teams.” arXiv:2407.17489 (2024). https://arxiv.org/html/2407.17489v2

7b: OWASP. “OWASP Top 10 for Large Language Model Applications.” https://owasp.org/www-project-top-10-for-large-language-model-applications/

7c: Siddiqui, I. et al. (2025). “Technological Folie a Deux: Feedback Loops Between AI Chatbots and Mental Illness.” arXiv:2507.19218. https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.19218

7d: Østergaard, S.D. (2026). “Have We Learned Nothing From the Global Social Media Experiment?” Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica, 153(2). https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/acps.70057

7e: Olsen, J.S. et al. (2026). “Potentially Harmful Consequences of Artificial Intelligence (AI) Chatbot Use Among Patients With Mental Illness.” Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica, 153(2). https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/acps.70068

Chapter 8

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Chapter 9

9a: Demiliani, C. (2025). “Understanding LLM Performance Degradation: A Deep Dive into Context Window Limits.” https://demiliani.com/2025/11/02/understanding-llm-performance-degradation-a-deep-dive-into-context-window-limits/ — “Large Language Models Hallucination: A Comprehensive Survey.” arXiv:2510.06265 (2025). https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06265

Chapter 10

10a: “OpenAI resets Codex limits after hitting 3M weekly users.” MSN. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/openai-resets-codex-limits-after-hitting-3m-weekly-users/gm-GM19ED279E

10b: “Anthropic admits Claude Code users hitting usage limits ‘way faster than expected’.” The Register (2026). https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/31/anthropic_claude_code_limits/

10c: “Anthropic confirms it’s been ‘adjusting’ Claude usage limits.” PCWorld. https://www.pcworld.com/article/3100787/anthropic-confirms-its-been-adjusting-claude-usage-limits.html

10d: “More control over Gemini API costs.” Google Blog. https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/technology/developers-tools/more-control-over-gemini-api-costs/

10e: “Release Notes for Microsoft 365 Copilot.” Microsoft Learn. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/copilot/release-notes

Chapter 11

11a: International Energy Agency. “Energy and AI: Energy Demand from AI.” IEA, 2025. https://www.iea.org/reports/energy-and-ai/energy-demand-from-ai — Goldman Sachs Research. “AI is poised to drive 160% increase in data center power demand.” 2024. https://www.goldmansachs.com/insights/articles/AI-poised-to-drive-160-increase-in-power-demand — AKCP. “Data Center Water Usage Effectiveness (WUE).” 2021. https://www.akcp.com/index.php/2021/01/14/data-center-water-usage-effectiveness-wue/ — Visual Capitalist. “Mapped: U.S. States With the Most Data Centers in 2025.” December 2025. https://www.visualcapitalist.com/mapped-u-s-states-with-the-most-data-centers-in-2025/ (data: Datacentermap.com) — JLL. “North America Data Center Report Year-End 2025.” https://www.jll.com/en-us/newsroom/jll-north-america-data-center-report-year-end-2025 — Texas Tribune. Data center / ERCOT grid reporting, 2025–2026. https://www.texastribune.org/2026/01/20/texas-top-data-center-market-power-grid/ — Water Desk. “Data centers: a small but growing factor in Arizona’s water budget.” April 2025. https://waterdesk.org/2025/04/data-centers-a-small-but-growing-factor-in-arizonas-water-budget/

FAQ

Fa: Orwell, G., Nineteen Eighty‑Four, appendix, “The Principles of Newspeak” (London: Secker & Warburg, 1949). “Newspeak was designed not to extend but to diminish the range of thought…The grammar of Newspeak had two outstanding peculiarities. The first of these was an almost complete interchangeability between different parts of speech.”

Fb: AKCP. “Data Center Water Usage Effectiveness (WUE).” 2021. https://www.akcp.com/index.php/2021/01/14/data-center-water-usage-effectiveness-wue/

Fc: FisherMap. “Caesar Creek Lake, OH — Depth Map.” https://usa.fishermap.org/depth-map/caesar-creek-lake-oh/

Appendix 3

Chau, A. (2025, January 29). “Toy Manufacturing Costs: A Guide to Pricing and Economics.” GSN Manufacturing Consulting. https://www.gsnmc.com/post/the-economics-of-play-understanding-toy-manufacturing-costs-and-pricing

“Toy Store Business Costs, Revenue Potential & Profitability.” Sheets Market, April 15, 2025. https://sheets.market/toy-store-business-costs-revenue-potential-profitability/

NOTE: Items below are in no particular order.

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“What Is the Alignment Tax?” arXiv:2603.00047, March 2026. https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.00047

“Mitigating the Safety Alignment Tax with Null-Space Constrained Policy Optimization.” arXiv:2512.11391, December 2025. https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.11391

“Breaking the Safety-Capability Tradeoff: Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards Maintains Safety Guardrails in LLMs.” arXiv:2511.21050, November 2025. https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.21050

“Amazon Still Selling Multiple OpenAI-Powered Teddy Bears, Even After They Were Pulled Off the Market.” Futurism, 2025-11-19. https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/amazon-openai-teddy-bears

Klein, A. “‘Dangerous, Manipulative Tendencies’: The Risks of Kid-Friendly AI Learning Toys.” Education Week, 2026-01. https://www.edweek.org/technology/dangerous-manipulative-tendencies-the-risks-of-kid-friendly-ai-learning-toys/2026/01

“Texas data center boom puts pressure on state’s power grid.” Texas Tribune, January 24, 2025. https://www.texastribune.org/2025/01/24/texas-data-center-boom-grid/

“ERCOT faces planning challenges as data centers flood grid with interconnection requests.” Texas Tribune, October 30, 2025. https://www.texastribune.org/2025/10/30/texas-ercot-power-grid-data-centers-puc/

“Gas plants proposed to meet AI and data center electricity demand in Texas.” Texas Tribune, June 11, 2025. https://www.texastribune.org/2025/06/11/texas-gas-power-plants-ai/

“Machine Bullshit: Characterizing the Emergent Disregard for Truth in Large Language Models.” arXiv:2507.07484, 2025. https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.07484

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Jemielniak, D. (2025, January 14). “We Need a Fourth Law of Robotics for AI.” IEEE Spectrum. https://spectrum.ieee.org/isaac-asimov-robotics

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“Complementarity in Human-AI Collaboration.” European Journal of Information Systems, 2025. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/0960085X.2025.2475962

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Sidji, M., Smith, W., & Rogerson, M. J. (2025). “Adopting the Theory of Distributed Cognition for Human-AI Cooperation.” https://www.researchgate.net/publication/395960304_Adopting_the_Theory_of_Distributed_Cognition_for_Human-AI_Cooperation

Weston, J., & Foerster, J. (2025). “AI & Human Co-Improvement for Safer Co-Superintelligence.” arXiv:2512.05356. https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.05356

“Human-AI interaction in safety-critical network infrastructures.” iScience, 28(9), 113400 (August 2025). https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12454906/

Naikar, N., Brady, A., Moy, G., & Kwok, H.-W. (2023). “Designing human-AI systems for complex settings.” Ergonomics, 66(11), 1669–1694. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00140139.2023.2281898

“Clinical Safety & Hallucination Rates for Medical Summarization.” Nature Digital Medicine, 2025. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41746-025-01670-7

TruthfulQA Benchmark — standard factuality evaluation.

“Survey and Analysis of Hallucinations in LLMs.” Frontiers in AI, 2025. https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/artificial-intelligence/articles/10.3389/frai.2025.1622292/full

Hiriyanna, S., & Zhao, W. (2025). “Multi-Layered Framework for LLM Hallucination Mitigation in High-Stakes Applications.” Computers, 14(8), 332. https://www.mdpi.com/2073-431X/14/8/332

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“LLM Hallucinations in 2025.” Lakera, October 2025. https://www.lakera.ai/blog/guide-to-hallucinations-in-large-language-models

“Context Degradation Syndrome: When LLMs Lose the Plot.” 2024. https://jameshoward.us/2024/11/26/context-degradation-syndrome-when-large-language-models-lose-the-plot/

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“Look Back to Reason Forward: Revisitable Memory for Long-Context LLM Agents.” arXiv:2509.23040, 2025. https://arxiv.org/html/2509.23040v1

IBM Research. “Why Larger Context Windows Are All the Rage.” https://research.ibm.com/blog/larger-context-window

“Autonomy by Design: Preserving Human Autonomy in AI Decision-Support.” Philosophy & Technology, 2025. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13347-025-00932-2

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“Human Autonomy at Risk? An Analysis of Challenges from AI.” Minds and Machines, 2024. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11023-024-09665-1

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“Measuring and Mitigating Overreliance.” arXiv:2509.08010, 2025. https://arxiv.org/html/2509.08010v1

“AI Safety and Automation Bias.” Georgetown CSET, November 2024. https://cset.georgetown.edu/wp-content/uploads/CSET-AI-Safety-and-Automation-Bias.pdf

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“AI-powered children’s toys are here, but are they safe?” CNN, December 2025. https://www.cnn.com/2025/12/01/tech/ai-toys-safety

“Ahead of the holidays, consumer and child advocacy groups warn against AI toys.” NPR, November 2025. https://www.npr.org/2025/11/20/nx-s1-5612689/ai-toys

“Study warns AI toys pose ‘unacceptable risks’ to young children.” CapRadio, February 2026. https://www.capradio.org/articles/2026/02/02/study-warns-ai-toys-pose-unacceptable-risks-to-young-children/

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