The shift from instinctive skepticism to methodical documentation is the development that separates this moment from earlier rounds of AI resistance in research communities. The researcher who refused their organization's mandatory experimentation period did not simply opt out — they substituted a different kind of rigor, reading broadly and assembling a written case [9]. That approach treats the mandate itself as a hypothesis to be tested rather than a policy to be accepted or rejected on principle. When AI warmth and sycophancy are already subjects of peer-reviewed research on AI…