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.
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 mixed or uncertain items would move with how many were filtered out rather than with the discourse.
35 items read as mixed or uncertain
- China unveils draft export controls on AI technologies and chips
- ClawLoop: Self-Improving Agents via Harness-Native Training Loop
- KDASO: Knowledge-Data Dual-Driven Automated Skill Optimization for Liability Adjudication Tasks
- '500 new vulnerabilities' found in government, says AI minister
- OpenAI Engineer, Who Is Charged With Planting Bug, Advised Saudis
- The Ineliminable Anchor: Human Judgment as a Structural Requirement of Autonomous Artificial Intelligence Systems
- Developing Gemini 4 Argon responsibly and safely
- How “reverse game theory” could keep AI agents in check
- Evaluating Model Capabilities After Benchmark Saturation
- Nvidia, worth $5.5tn, donates $250m to UK for AI safety research
- Gemini 4 Carbon: Our next frontier model
- AI Risk Ontologies for the EU AI Act Compliance: AIRO, VAIR, and their Integration with DPV
- AI researchers stranded Claude on a virtual desert island. It started to “play.”
- Distilling Expert Judgment at Scale
- ESC (DC) 2
- Trust Responsive Runtime Authorization for Agentic AI with Empirical Characterization of Policy Behavior and Parameter Sensitivity
- Thick Alignment: A Social Framework for Values and AI Systems
- Whether Is Not When: Separating Occurrence from Timing in Polymarket Prices
- What Does AI Success Look Like? A Mixed-Methods Analysis of Supranational AI Governance Instruments
- Large Language Models for Agent-Based Modelling: Current and possible uses across the modelling cycle
- Bringing GPT-Rosalind to academic research labs
- Becoming real
- Is this idea from AI or humans? A detector claims it can tell
- Verification and Self-Improvement in Agentic AI: Foundations and Limits
- Maintaining Human Verification Capacity under Automation
- Shaping & Monitoring Models through their Internal Representations
- Anthropic warns of 'catastrophic risk' to humankind ahead of blockbuster share listing
- One essential ingredient for AI safety? Democracy | Matthew Botvinick
- ‘Bold but sane’: what we learnt from Anthropic’s 240,000-word IPO filing
- How we detect frontier model misalignment
- An updated Model Spec for more capable and beneficial AI
- Anthropic gives outside AI watchdog “employee-like” access
- Regulating for an AI Commons: Adopting, sustaining, and defending people-first innovation trajectories
- AI-Native Academia Should Build a Community Verification Layer
- Objective-Conditioned Active Preference Learning for Multi-Objective Alignment
Across the whole window
The two tables below describe every item in the last 30 days under existential-risk. They are deliberately not narrowed by the reading filter (currently mixed or uncertain), 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 |