The New, Secret White House AI Rulebook ⁠90%

By Surya Gowda⁠26% James P. Sutton⁠15% Evan Spear⁠18% Ross Anderson⁠18%

8/7/2026, 3:46:06 AM

BS Summary: This article contains 11 faulty reasoning types, including Status Quo Bias, Availability Heuristic, and Representativeness Heuristic, with Attempt to Sell a Product or Service as the most egregious example at 55.9% saturation with 33 hits. Analysis detected 172 faulty-reasoning hits from 59 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 76.3% and a BS Rank of ⁠90% (3,252 of 30,584 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 89.40% of the article peer group.

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Article reasoning-pattern comparisonThis article: 0.0%Surya Gowda: 1.1%The Dispatch: 3.3%Confirmation Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Surya Gowda: 1.0%The Dispatch: 0.5%Anchoring Bias0.0%This article: 28.8%Surya Gowda: 0.3%The Dispatch: 1.7%Availability Heuristic28.8%This article: 28.8%Surya Gowda: 0.3%The Dispatch: 0.9%Representativeness Heuristic28.8%This article: 0.0%Surya Gowda: 0.0%The Dispatch: 0.5%Hindsight Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Surya Gowda: 0.5%The Dispatch: 1.6%Overconfidence Bias0.0%This article: 11.9%Surya Gowda: 3.0%The Dispatch: 4.4%Framing Effect11.9%This article: 0.0%Surya Gowda: 1.0%The Dispatch: 0.6%Loss Aversion0.0%This article: 39.0%Surya Gowda: 0.0%The Dispatch: 0.7%Status Quo Bias39.0%This article: 0.0%Surya Gowda: 0.0%The Dispatch: 0.0%Sunk Cost Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Surya Gowda: 1.0%The Dispatch: 1.4%Optimism Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Surya Gowda: 0.2%The Dispatch: 2.7%Pessimism Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Surya Gowda: 2.0%The Dispatch: 5.0%Negativity Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Surya Gowda: 0.0%The Dispatch: 0.4%Self-Serving Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Surya Gowda: 0.7%The Dispatch: 1.1%Fundamental Attribution Error0.0%This article: 0.0%Surya Gowda: 0.0%The Dispatch: 0.0%Actor-Observer Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Surya Gowda: 0.5%The Dispatch: 0.8%In-Group Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Surya Gowda: 0.0%The Dispatch: 0.7%Out-Group Homogeneity Bias0.0%This article: 28.8%Surya Gowda: 3.1%The Dispatch: 1.4%Halo Effect28.8%This article: 0.0%Surya Gowda: 0.0%The Dispatch: 0.2%Horn Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Surya Gowda: 0.0%The Dispatch: 0.0%Dunning-Kruger Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Surya Gowda: 0.7%The Dispatch: 0.9%Recency Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Surya Gowda: 0.3%The Dispatch: 0.2%Primacy Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Surya Gowda: 0.0%The Dispatch: 0.2%Blind-Spot Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Surya Gowda: 0.1%The Dispatch: 1.6%Ad Hominem0.0%This article: 0.0%Surya Gowda: 0.0%The Dispatch: 0.8%Straw Man0.0%This article: 28.8%Surya Gowda: 5.1%The Dispatch: 3.0%Appeal to Authority28.8%This article: 0.0%Surya Gowda: 0.0%The Dispatch: 2.2%False Dilemma0.0%This article: 0.0%Surya Gowda: 0.0%The Dispatch: 0.9%Slippery Slope0.0%This article: 0.0%Surya Gowda: 0.0%The Dispatch: 0.1%Circular Reasoning0.0%This article: 28.8%Surya Gowda: 0.6%The Dispatch: 5.5%Hasty Generalization28.8%This article: 0.0%Surya Gowda: 0.0%The Dispatch: 0.2%Red Herring0.0%This article: 0.0%Surya Gowda: 0.0%The Dispatch: 0.1%Bandwagon0.0%This article: 11.9%Surya Gowda: 1.5%The Dispatch: 2.2%Appeal to Emotion11.9%This article: 0.0%Surya Gowda: 0.5%The Dispatch: 0.7%Begging the Question0.0%This article: 0.0%Surya Gowda: 1.4%The Dispatch: 1.5%Post Hoc (False Cause)0.0%This article: 0.0%Surya Gowda: 0.0%The Dispatch: 0.1%Tu Quoque0.0%This article: 16.9%Surya Gowda: 0.2%The Dispatch: 0.4%Burden of Proof16.9%This article: 0.0%Surya Gowda: 0.0%The Dispatch: 0.1%Appeal to Nature0.0%This article: 0.0%Surya Gowda: 0.0%The Dispatch: 0.4%Composition/Division0.0%This article: 0.0%Surya Gowda: 0.4%The Dispatch: 1.0%Anecdotal0.0%This article: 0.0%Surya Gowda: 0.0%The Dispatch: 0.2%No True Scotsman0.0%This article: 0.0%Surya Gowda: 0.7%The Dispatch: 1.3%Ambiguity (Equivocation)0.0%This article: 0.0%Surya Gowda: 0.0%The Dispatch: 0.0%Gambler’s Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%Surya Gowda: 0.0%The Dispatch: 0.2%Middle Ground0.0%This article: 0.0%Surya Gowda: 0.0%The Dispatch: 0.2%Personal Incredulity0.0%This article: 0.0%Surya Gowda: 0.0%The Dispatch: 0.1%Special Pleading0.0%This article: 0.0%Surya Gowda: 0.0%The Dispatch: 0.3%Genetic Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%Surya Gowda: 0.7%The Dispatch: 1.0%Unattributed Quote0.0%This article: 0.0%Surya Gowda: 0.5%The Dispatch: 0.7%Quote-first Misdirection0.0%This article: 11.9%Surya Gowda: 2.0%The Dispatch: 6.4%Biased Writer Voice11.9%This article: 0.0%Surya Gowda: 0.5%The Dispatch: 1.2%Indoctrination0.0%This article: 0.0%Surya Gowda: 0.1%The Dispatch: 1.2%Politically Left Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Surya Gowda: 0.0%The Dispatch: 1.3%Politically Right Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 55.9%Surya Gowda: 9.8%The Dispatch: 4.5%Attempt to Sell a Product or S…55.9%

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