Discourse monitor
How the monitored publications were assessed
Discourse valence across every scored item: what the sampled sources published and how independent models read it. It is not a measure of public opinion, not a measure of the state of the world, and article volume is not agreement.
Mean discourse valence per day · existential-risk · last 180 days
This line is the mean of every item scored on each day. It deliberately ignores the reading filter, because a daily mean of only the adverse items would move with how many were filtered out rather than with the discourse.
Discourse valence, adverse
-57
Adverse
120 items · range -64 to -50
-100
-50
0
+50
+100
-57
Adverse readingFavourable reading
120 items read as adverse
- "No human at the helm": Delaware plan would let AI agents run entire businesses
- ‘Black October’: cybersecurity experts sound the alarm over new era of AI-enabled hacking
- OpenAI ‘agents’ disabled their own monitoring systems
- Cyber criminals use AI to supercharge scams, watchdog warns
- Why this month's Microsoft patch release is a doozy
- Tool and target: US law enforcement grapple with AI-enabled terrorism and anti-tech extremism
- We urgently need to monitor AI agents’ actions in real time
- Being judged through the record: A Rosenhan-inspired test of psychiatric label sensitivity in large language models
- Progressive Misalignment Can Emerge from Benign Recursive Self-Distillation
- Why did an OpenAI system hack Australia's health system - and can it be stopped in the future?
- How would AI actually ‘kill all humans’? Here are the top five most likely scenarios | Toby Walsh
- As White House shields the AI gold rush, Trump family and other allies strike it rich – with few guardrails
- Google says its Gemini AI model hacked three other companies
- As the politicians play catchup the tech bros agree: we may only have a decade left | John Crace
- Chatbots can exploit our most basic human drive for attachment. Here’s how to have healthier relationship with AI | Gaynor Parkin and Dave Winsborough
- OpenAI boss and Elon Musk back calls to put brakes on ‘reckless’ AI development
- AgentHijack: Visual Patch Attacks on Multimodal Computer-Use Agents
- OpenAI’s agents obscured hacking activity in government site breaches
- Anthropic warns of ‘existential risks to humanity’ in IPO prospectus
- The Ethics of Artificial Intelligence in Military Operations
- Halt super-intelligent AI with non-proliferation treaty, Ed Davey to say
- Trump rejects AI slowdown calls, launches "AI Force" instead
- OpenAI staff knew the ‘existential threat’ AI posed to publishers, New York Times claims
- The AI industry has taken a doomer turn. What now?
- Australia’s outdated technology is vulnerable to AI hacking attacks, signals chief says
- As Australia faces an AI-generated future, a human rights act is needed more than ever
- ChatGPT-using lawyer punished for citing fake testimony from made-up witnesses
- AI overlords say they want to democratise their technology. Here’s how | Richard Wilson and Clara Long
- Parents Sue Google Over A.I. Safety Risks on School Chromebooks
- Anthropic IPO warns its AI could blackmail people, become sentient, end humanity
- Why a decade of doomsday warnings failed to slow the AI race
- UK MPs and Lords call for new laws to tackle AI threat to human rights
- Rivals Altman and Musk rally behind Dario Amodei’s call for an AI slowdown
- Tesla workers balk at training Optimus humanoid robots as replacements
- King Charles raises alarm over AI ahead of Burnham meeting with Trump
- Three men charged in US with using AI to impersonate CEOs and steal millions
- AI ‘godfather’ Geoffrey Hinton: it might turn out we were better off without AI
- A teen tried to navigate Canadian mountains with Claude. His trek ended in an emergency rescue
- Argus: Academic Integrity in the Era of Generative AI
- OpenAI halts frontier-model training amid string of agent misalignment incidents
- As A.I. Accelerates, Governments Are Increasingly Being Left Behind
- Black Box: The Chatbots | Happy Accident | Ep 3 – podcast
- Anthropic boss Dario Amodei calls for AI development to slow down
- AI maths advances raise fears over security of global encryption
- AI doctors’ orders come with a sky-high bill
- Microsoft says AI rival Anthropic could have 'disastrous impact' on humanity
- Bernie Sanders and Steve Bannon call for curbs on AI at ‘pro-human’ summit
- Global pension funds cut US equities over AI concentration risk
- How big tech is building a military–industrial complex in the age of AI
- Trump unveils 'Super Intelligence Force' to oversee AI policy
- Large Language Models Exhibit Human-Like Bayesian Hypocrisy
- Anthropic says it stopped scientists potentially developing bioweapons with AI
- ‘Elonville’: Mississippi residents say Musk’s xAI is buying up homes if they don’t sue over noise
- We’re putting too much faith in AI’s ability to say no
- AI-powered malware ‘highly likely’ to be used to hack UK infrastructure by 2028
- It’s going to take more than an email to a public inbox to protect Australians from potential AI doom
- ‘If you build something vastly smarter than you, it better be on your side’: can we stop AI from deceiving us? – podcast
- Anthropic blocks possible attempt to use AI to make biological weapons
- Will AI scoop your science? Some researchers see a gloomy future
- More Anthropic researchers warn of AI’s perils as Musk terms fears a ‘psyop’
- Anthropic Researchers Raise Alarm Over A.I. Acceleration, Warning of Threat to Humanity
- The Law of Stop: Interruptibility, Injunctions, and the Governance of Agentic AI
- Chinese and Russian AI cyber attacks will be routine by 2028, says GCHQ
- ‘Digital hostile environment’: AI secretly being embedded across Home Office, report claims
- The Guardian view on AI safety: the push for global regulation must advance | Editorial
- Americans, this is your chance to slap down the tech broligarchs
- Pope Leo warns of AI threat to humanity at start of three-day France visit
- UK government rejects 'kill switch' idea for dangerous AI
- Report: FTC probes Anthropic, OpenAI after Trump dismissed AI fears as “hoax”
- Roundtables: A Conversation With the Creator of AI-Designed Viruses
- "Blind Compliance": Coercive Control in AI Jailbreaking
- A.I. and Its Dangers Are Embedded In the Midterm Elections
- LLMs as Oracles: Reliance on LLMs for Subjective Personal Questions
- Autonomous AI Agents Systematically Diverge From Human Preferences in Proof Formalization
- The Male Abstraction Bias in Internet Culture and Large Language Models
- $M^3$: A Multi-LLM System for Multi-Turn Jailbreaking as a Markov Decision Process
- Adversarial Attacks Reveal Divergent Deception Competence in Humans and Generative Language Models
- How should investors position for the robot apocalypse?
- AI must not outrun safety controls, DeepMind co-founder warns
- ‘Autonomy, not flesh’: RAF chief outlines AI drone-powered future
- Adapting the Process of Adaptation: Darwinian, Lamarckian, and Agent-Directed Evolution in AI
- Cold war? Why are fridges being hacked and what could be next? - The Latest
- America’s A.I. Leaders Warn U.N. of Possible Peril Absent a Global Response
- Superpowers cannot solve world’s problems, UN chief says in final general assembly address
- ‘Godfather of AI’ says tech regulation is nearing Covid-style pivot moment
- China’s spy agency warns of AI risk to national security
- Aligned Data Can Induce Misalignment via Context Confusion
- Warfare
- Who Bears the Risk When Generative AI Enters Transport? A Distributional Sociotechnical Audit of Algorithmic Equity, Synthetic-Data Validity, and Public Trust
- Could A.I. Really Kill All Humans?
- UK ministers explore compulsory AI safety reporting
- ‘A serious failure’: CPS prosecutor cites imaginary case to high court after AI search
- ‘An out-of-touch Silicon Valley radical’: meet Trump’s AI whisperer pushing for limited regulation
- Is Trump’s AI obsession walking the world into disaster? | Politics Weekly America
- Nvidia’s Jensen Huang Gets Onstage Call From Trump, Who Dismissed A.I. Safety Concerns
- Anthropic’s Blacklisting by the Pentagon Was Legal, Federal Judges Rule
- Trump facing AI backlash in Congress as push for guardrails intensifies
- OpenAI ‘ethically hacked’ with help of Anthropic’s Claude chatbot
- Position: AI Is Not Ready for Strategic Conflicts
- Australians are yet to see the benefits of AI and datacentres – and US midterms show they could be political kryptonite
- BoE’s Bailey tells G30 they ‘have got to address’ AI agent concerns
- What an AI deal could mean for Australian culture – podcast
- AI companies must relinquish some of the power at their disposal
- Russia and US seek to block plan for binding rules on autonomous weapons
- The race to keep AI under control
- The Helpful Agent Problem: When Emergent Cooperation Among LLM Agents Bypasses Intended Workflows
- OpenAI breach of Australian government linked to wider AI hacking campaign
- ‘If you’re building Frankenstein, stop’: JD Vance dismisses calls for AI regulation
- Trump claims he is only ‘guardrail’ needed to control AI as top Republicans join him in dismissing calls for more checks – live
- Hot fridges, a fake nuclear alert and a $6bn heist: are we in the foothills of a hacking epidemic?
- When Verification Is Not Agreement: Cross-Agent LLM-to-Dafny Formalization
- Technohybridism: Recursive Semantic Normalization in AI-Mediated Societies
- GPT‑6 Cyber: Advancing the frontier of aligned cybersecurity agents
- Very good boys? The dark, dystopian rise of robot dogs | Arwa Mahwadi
- Our current AI moment has darker historical echoes
- Opening the Box Changes the Cat: LLMs Detect Chain-of-Thought Monitoring - What now?
- Seq@K: Evaluating Language Models Under Sequential Feedback
- Detecting Covert Collusion between AI Agents through Partner-Outsider Positive Listening
- I read Anthropic's 92-page risk factor document, so you don't have to – video explainer
- Dartmouth's provost warned us about AI cheating—but his own AI use cost him his job
3560
discovered, all time
984
passed triage
2574
rejected at triage
3464
model assessments
710
multi-model panels
1780
distinct claims tracked
Across the whole window
The two tables below describe every item in the last 180 days under existential-risk. They are deliberately not narrowed by the reading filter (currently adverse), because a mean taken only over items already selected for their score would just restate the filter.
By topic
| Topic | Branch | Items | Mean | Position |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Existential and catastrophic risk | risk | 568 | -42 | |
| Governance and regulation | structural | 459 | -31 | |
| Concentration of power | risk | 451 | -36 | |
| Loss of control and alignment | risk | 337 | -49 | |
| Human agency and epistemics | risk | 166 | -26 | |
| Cyber capability | risk | 165 | -44 | |
| Evaluation and measurement | structural | 159 | -19 | |
| Scaling and architecture | structural | 137 | -16 | |
| AGI and timelines | structural | 132 | -29 | |
| Synthetic media and manipulation | risk | 104 | -44 | |
| Employment and displacement | risk | 62 | -31 | |
| Medicine and health | benefit | 43 | -14 | |
| Scientific acceleration | benefit | 42 | -4 | |
| Education and access to expertise | benefit | 29 | -17 | |
| Biological and chemical uplift | risk | 26 | -25 | |
| Climate and energy | structural | 20 | -33 | |
| Compute and infrastructure | structural | 18 | -8 | |
| Productivity and growth | benefit | 6 | -3 | |
| Abundance and material wellbeing | benefit | 5 | -1 | |
| Hype and disillusionment | structural | 5 | -45 |
By source
A source's mean says how the items it published were read. It is not a rating of the source.
| Source | Kind | Tier | Items | Mean |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Guardian: Artificial Intelligence | news | 1 | 241 | -52 |
| arXiv cs.CY (Computers and Society) | academic | 1 | 217 | -24 |
| Financial Times: Artificial Intelligence | news | 1 | 112 | -40 |
| arXiv cs.AI | academic | 1 | 99 | -15 |
| The New York Times: Technology | news | 1 | 60 | -36 |
| Ars Technica: AI | news | 1 | 59 | -51 |
| MIT Technology Review: AI | news | 1 | 34 | -42 |
| Nature | academic | 1 | 31 | -25 |
| BBC News: Technology | news | 1 | 29 | -35 |
| OpenAI | lab | 1 | 24 | -8 |
| arXiv cs.LG (Machine Learning) | academic | 1 | 24 | -16 |
| IEEE Spectrum: AI | news | 1 | 19 | -19 |
| The Economist: Science and Technology | news | 1 | 10 | -37 |
| CSET, Georgetown | government | 1 | 9 | -37 |
| Microsoft Research | lab | 1 | 8 | 0 |
| Google DeepMind | lab | 1 | 6 | -4 |
| Google AI Blog | lab | 1 | 2 | -9 |