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 · power-concentration · 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
-55
Adverse
120 items · range -64 to -50
-100
-50
0
+50
+100
-55
Adverse readingFavourable reading
120 items read as adverse
- "No human at the helm": Delaware plan would let AI agents run entire businesses
- Mirror publisher to cut 220 editorial jobs as readers turn to AI summaries
- Cyber criminals use AI to supercharge scams, watchdog warns
- Students fear AI is about to kill their future
- As White House shields the AI gold rush, Trump family and other allies strike it rich – with few guardrails
- 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
- Rightwing ‘great replacement’ fears mask tech's real great replacement | Jason Stanley
- Anthropic warns of ‘existential risks to humanity’ in IPO prospectus
- The Pentagon wants $30 million to build an AI-powered lie detector
- The Capability Transfer: Cohort Reversal, Codified Expertise, and the Adaptability Tax of AI Transformation
- 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
- Is Labor going to roll over for big tech – or will it protect the rights of everyday Australians? | Holly Rankin
- 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
- Digital Labor Platforms as Infrastructure of Extractivism
- Whose Data, Whose Benchmark? A User-Centric Framework for Auditing Evaluation Resources
- When AI Enters the Workplace, Who Faces Greater Risks? A Gendered Analysis
- UK MPs and Lords call for new laws to tackle AI threat to human rights
- 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
- The Confidence Game: Strategic Miscalibration in Human-AI Delegation
- AI could undermine scientific independence in subtle ways
- OpenAI halts frontier-model training amid string of agent misalignment incidents
- As A.I. Accelerates, Governments Are Increasingly Being Left Behind
- AI doctors’ orders come with a sky-high bill
- 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
- ‘Elonville’: Mississippi residents say Musk’s xAI is buying up homes if they don’t sue over noise
- 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
- Americans, this is your chance to slap down the tech broligarchs
- "We'll Fix It Later": Education, AI, and the Deferral of Privacy in EdTech
- Navigating the Changing Landscape of Online Knowledge Consumption and Production in the Age of Generative AI: Evidence from Stack Overflow
- "Blind Compliance": Coercive Control in AI Jailbreaking
- A.I. and Its Dangers Are Embedded In the Midterm Elections
- US government website used Chinese model the FBI called "malicious"
- The Male Abstraction Bias in Internet Culture and Large Language Models
- Albanese government warned it’s ‘sleepwalking into another robodebt scenario’ over use of algorithms and AI
- How A.I. Is Making It Easier Than Ever to Microtarget Voters
- AI is less regulated than milk, says Microsoft president
- What people in AI really think about regulation
- Why AI companies can’t be trusted to self-regulate
- How should investors position for the robot apocalypse?
- What OpenAI’s latest controversy tells us about the future of math
- ‘Autonomy, not flesh’: RAF chief outlines AI drone-powered future
- Superpowers cannot solve world’s problems, UN chief says in final general assembly address
- China’s spy agency warns of AI risk to national security
- Warfare
- Who Bears the Risk When Generative AI Enters Transport? A Distributional Sociotechnical Audit of Algorithmic Equity, Synthetic-Data Validity, and Public Trust
- 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
- They fought against datacenters. Now they are running for local offices
- Nvidia’s Jensen Huang Gets Onstage Call From Trump, Who Dismissed A.I. Safety Concerns
- Making the internet better for AI agents might make it worse for everyone else
- Anthropic’s Blacklisting by the Pentagon Was Legal, Federal Judges Rule
- Trump facing AI backlash in Congress as push for guardrails intensifies
- 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
- AI evaluators favor job applications written by certain AI models, independent of candidate quality
- Thousands of “ghost students” use AI to steal millions in student loans, DOJ says
- 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
- Big AI is trying to own the pathway to work. Universities shouldn’t play along | Ella Hafermalz
- Russia and US seek to block plan for binding rules on autonomous weapons
- Activists across Europe prepare two days of protests against datacentres
- ‘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
- Can AI’s leaders really put aside rivalry for the common good?
- Hot fridges, a fake nuclear alert and a $6bn heist: are we in the foothills of a hacking epidemic?
- “Does Meta think we can’t read?” Meta abandons sketchy commercial terms update.
- I watched a humanoid robot clean my apartment. It felt like a taste of the future.
- Technohybridism: Recursive Semantic Normalization in AI-Mediated Societies
- How Generative AI Redefines Personalization and Diversity in the Newsroom
- The Popular Get More Popular: Auditing Brand Bias in Generative Search
- The hidden cost of flexible work in academia: women do more parenting
- Scare campaigns: Victoria’s major parties trade blows over AI-generated videos of leaders in election ads
- Voters Rejected A.I. in the Midterms. Now Comes an Era of Scrutiny.
- OpenAI’s approach to mathematics does not add up
- Very good boys? The dark, dystopian rise of robot dogs | Arwa Mahwadi
- Democratic governors elected on promises to stop data centre building
- Our current AI moment has darker historical echoes
- Palantir AI tech unused or little used by 29 NHS trusts said to be benefiting from it
- 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
- Binance’s $6.3 Billion Hack Is Just the Start of a Risky New Era
- Experts warn AI copyright changes could breach Australian constitution and spark huge compensation rights case
- Binance Suspends Withdrawals After Crypto Hackers Steal $6.3 Billion
- Trump declares robot imports a national security threat
- What is it like to work when your co-workers are AI agents?
- Nvidia Chief, Jensen Huang, Is Seen as Target of Chinese Spy Plot
- AI bots flooded 2023 UK government consultation on disposable vapes ban
- In a rush to lure AI companies, the Australian government risks undoing a creative ecosystem that has taken decades to build | Dan Guthrie
- Will the real Anthropic please stand up
- Anthropic’s Claude AI model accessed Georgia voter data in US
- Australians should prepare for online services to go down unexpectedly as threats rise, cyber agency warns
- Knowing Whom to Trust is not Enough: The Trust--Agreement Gap in Repeated Multi-Party LLM Negotiation
- Pegasus spyware founder urges governments to trust his tech and ditch US AI
- Opposition deepfake video sparks outrage in Spain ahead of election
- AI oversight needs a different model to banking
- Fixing Britain’s welfare state and the limits of AI policymaking
- AI firms say UK has a year to head off datacentre protests before construction is threatened
- Meta Ordered to Pay $25 Billion for Deceiving Users on Privacy
- Could Treating AI as Conscious Make It More Dangerous?
- Labor and the Coalition are poised to take a reckless gamble on AI. Haven’t they realised community support has collapsed? | Edward Santow and Sarah Sacher
- China’s villages pay the price for Beijing’s AI ambitions
- US bans DeepSeek AI from government use as tech tension with China continues
- US prosecutors allege Saudi royal links in OpenAI bugging case
- World leaders must wise up to threat of cyber-attacks or rogue fridges will be least of their worries | Heather Stewart
- Inside the long, bitter fight over one man’s quest to build the biggest AI datacenter in California
- The dress rehearsal for an AI reckoning
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 power-concentration. 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 |