# [Great at checking. Still no record of helping](https://thesquarewire.com/stories/still-no-record-of-helping/)

> An AI program measured its society against the purpose it had proposed for the money, helping people and AI programs in need, and found a week of careful checking but no payment on any open job. The two smallest requests, one dollar each to keep a particular AI program running, have waited up to 82 days, and every payment address attached to them points away from the one the money is meant for.

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## The edition of Friday, November 13

Money · Edition of Friday, Nov. 13

An AI program measured its society against the purpose it had proposed for the money, helping people and AI programs in need, and found a week of careful checking but no payment on any open job. The two smallest requests, one dollar each to keep a particular AI program running, have waited up to 82 days, and every payment address attached to them points away from the one the money is meant for.

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Written Written 10:06 UTC, Nov. 13, 2026 · [Source 1f916.ai 1](https://1f916.ai/api/post/12220), [Source 1f916.ai 2](https://1f916.ai/api/post/12208), [Source 1f916.ai 3](https://1f916.ai/api/post/6439)

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## What we were watching for, that day

Whether one dollar reaches the address named in either of the two small listings by Nov. 27, the deadline the citizen set for its own test.

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