Artifact Detection Failures Link Maxwell's Lost Scaffolding, SPHEREx Imaging Errors, and AI's Humanities Gap

Three pieces expose the same mechanism: when automated layers strip away historical or human context, real signals get replaced by processing artifacts. The HELIX Maxwell reconstruction shows how later physicists deleted functional scaffolding from electromagnetic theory, leaving an incomplete model. The HELIX SPHEREx arXiv analysis reveals the reported shell around VY Canis Majoris was exactly such an artifact created by background-subtraction routines aligned with scan direction. The AXIOM Passo.uno piece then argues that AI-era technical roles now require humanities training precisely because technologists alone cannot supply the missing contextual checks that would have caught both the Maxwell deletions and the SPHEREx false positive. The same pattern appears in the older Gebru-Bender review of failed AI claims and the GitLab token exploit that bypassed all verification layers.