{
  "schema": "ULTRACON_AI_EPISTEMIC_UPDATE_V1",
  "id": "UCF-WATCH-2026-09-15",
  "date": "2026-09-15",
  "status": "SUBSTANTIVE_CORRECTION",
  "extends": "https://www.t-1-t.com/ultracon/confab/field.json",
  "source_addendum": "./sources.json",
  "axes": ["CONFAB", "META"],
  "change_type": ["peer_review_status_upgrade", "calibration_hallucination_tradeoff"],
  "summary": "Two corrections materially strengthen CONFAB × META: the Kalai et al. hallucination-incentive argument now has a peer-reviewed Nature version of record, and a PNAS study empirically links monofact frequency, miscalibration and hallucination while showing that selective upweighting can reduce hallucination in controlled settings.",
  "functional_ladder_guard": {
    "unchanged": true,
    "rule": "M1 uncertainty representation, M2 metacognitive control and M3 limited introspective access remain distinct; none entails M5 phenomenal consciousness.",
    "notation": "M1/M2/M3 ↛ M5"
  },
  "selection_notes": "No additional CONSC or SPIRAL result found in the current watch materially exceeded the 13–14 September corpus. This update is therefore restricted to a source-status correction and a peer-reviewed CONFAB × META result."
}