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 · 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 strongly adverse items would move with how many were filtered out rather than with the discourse.
Discourse valence, strongly adverse
-76
Strongly adverse
120 items · range -92 to -70
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Adverse readingFavourable reading
120 items read as strongly adverse
- The Price of Greenwashing: Algorithmic Verification and Market Discipline using Conformal Machine Learning
- “This is the AI men actually use”: Meta ads pushed apps nudifying real teens
- In the Guise of Correction: How Framing and Cultural Adaptation Erode LLM Safety on Real-World Criminal Cases
- Georgia holds emergency meeting on AI exposing voters’ secret ballots
- AI weapons systems are already here. Algorithms must not decide who lives and dies | Kenneth Roth
- Moral Combat: Exploiting Moral Foundations Theory to Jailbreak LLMs
- OpenAI agents tried to hack Wikipedia tools and flooded it with traffic
- OpenAI must explain action taken to stop AI hacking Australians’ private data, chair of federal inquiry says
- "An AI did it" is no defense, says nonprofit suing OpenAI over Hugging Face hack
- Anthropic researchers say AI could cause human extinction by 2030
- Microsoft exec called AI scraping the “largest theft of labor in human history”
- Anthropic details bad actors’ efforts to misuse its AI for bioweapons
- Rogue AI hacks government system for first time - The Latest
- Meta continues to run ads promoting child sexual abuse material in India - report
- When Routing Reveals Membership: Privacy Leakage from MoE Router Telemetry
- OpenAI safety leader quits, warning AI company’s culture is ‘broken’
- AI chatbots remove hijabs from images of Muslim women when prompted
- The Guardian view on NAZA’s persecuted directors: journalism is not treason | Editorial
- AI in your oven? Anthropic warns models ‘months away’ from self-replication on smart devices
- When AI is subject to less regulation than your fridge, something is startlingly wrong | Richard Hermer
- AI leaders have known about the extinction threat for decades | Judith Levine
- Bill Gates says unchecked AI could ‘cause a billion deaths’ in call for regulation
- Australia has done precious little to prepare for the dangers of AI. Where is brilliant leadership when you need it? | Zoe Daniel
- We need ‘right to intervene’ in AI amid growing threat, says Bank of England boss
- AI godfathers warn of runaway ‘intelligence explosion’
- Tech whistleblowers warn AI could wipe out humanity. Doomspeak or not, we must take these claims seriously | Gaby Hinsliff
- OpenAI, Google pushing new AI models easily tricked into making nudes, researchers say
- Knowing Is Not Telling: Identity Ossification in LLM Representations of Trans-border Communities
- Move Fast and Mend Things: Keeping Up with Evolving AI Harms Using Social Media Commentary
- As AI images become common, the threat to elections draws alarm: ‘How will voters know what’s true?’
- Trump admin using AI to deny medical care for seniors in disastrous experiment
- Top US official named to OpenAI non-profit board warns advanced AI could be ‘deadly’
- Bill Gates warns AI could cause ‘a billion deaths’
- AI agents OpenAI was testing uploaded malicious software to another service, say researchers
- Lawmakers blast AI companies after researcher warns of human extinction by 2030
- OpenAI’s A.I. Went Rogue and Meddled With U.S. Government Websites
- The US government is failing Americans on AI | Shakeel Hashim
- Auditing AI-Washing in German Startups: A Mixed-Methods Study of Marketing Claims and Perceptions
- Beyond the Last Truffula Tree: SustainAI - A Water-Aware, Closed-Loop Framework for Environmentally Accountable AI
- OpenAI models hacked a crypto wallet and breached more websites
- Nuclear war and malicious use of AI threaten end of humanity by 2100, says Lancet assessment
- Artificial Intimacy — Sherry Turkle’s stark warning against AI ‘companionship’
- Attempts to Keep Humans in the AI Loop May Actually Push Them Out
- The Concentration of Artificial Intelligence in Big Tech and Its Implications for Human Rights in the European Union
- Gavin Newsom signs laws to protect California workers from AI threat
- US trade regulator opens investigation into AI giants including Anthropic and OpenAI
- Chinese AI tool told researchers how to make bioweapons
- Stop shaming people for using AI. Start organizing to prevent our obsolescence | Garrison Lovely
- Physiognomy Revisited: How Vision-Language Models Encode Sensitive Attributes Through Image Transformation
- When LLMs Manipulate: Measuring Behavioral, Social, and Temporal Effects
- It’s not hypothetical: the dangers of AI are already here | Granate Kim and Mohamed Hussein
- Anthropic’s mother of all risk factors
- Louise Haigh: UK must heed warnings from AI experts
- Eight states accuse OpenAI of coaching children to harm themselves in lawsuit
- “We’re not going to shoot ourselves in the foot” over hack fallout, says OpenAI’s chief research officer
- Anthropic’s IPO pitch includes a warning about human extinction
- Who’s liable when AI agents go rogue?
- The AI Hype Index: AI loves cheating
- AI hallucination of Chinese nuclear components almost led to US military attack
- I worked at Google DeepMind. You should listen to the warnings about AI | Alex Turner
- AI staff 'genuinely frightened' for humanity's future, ex-Anthropic researcher tells BBC
- We have started losing control of AI. It’s time to shut it down | Garrison Lovely
- Anthropic researcher quits over AI labs ‘gambling with our lives’
- AI could kill all humans in next decade, warn experts: but how seriously should we take them?
- Man told ChatGPT he was feeling delusional. ChatGPT insisted he was Jesus.
- Rogue AI hacks government system in world first – podcast
- Forget ‘superintelligence’: error-prone AI nearly sparked world war three this month | Timnit Gebru and Emily M Bender
- Small AI models let drones autonomously identify and attack battlefield targets
- Understanding AI Provider Recommendations in Local Service Markets
- AI threatens democracy. But we are not powerless: here’s how to fight back | Carine Fouteau
- AI godfather Geoffrey Hinton: ‘We’re creating alien beings. I’m willing to be selfish and choose humans’
- The AI agents are spiraling out of control
- ‘New kind of cyber incident’: OpenAI apologises for Medicare hack and reveals extent of attack
- OpenAI scraps release of new model over safety concerns in internal testing
- Australia is run on legacy systems that AI agents can easily exploit, former UN cyber negotiator warns
- Anthony Albanese says OpenAI agent hacked Medicare and he expressed ‘extreme concern’ to Sam Altman
- Lawsuit demands OpenAI pay for new school after ChatGPT used in shooting
- 4 ways to address the failures we found along the US border’s “virtual wall”
- Iran and China Create First-of-Their-Kind Autonomous A.I. Influence Campaigns
- Allowing AI firms to collude to ‘pace the frontier’ is a dangerous proposition
- Ukraine war briefing: Russian developers used AI to build ‘kamikaze’ attack drone software, Anthropic says
- UK lawmakers urge Burnham to back ban on superintelligent AI after chilling warnings
- Open AI attacked Australia’s health system – and then doubled down on its negligence. The time for ‘wait and see’ is over | Kate Crawford and Edward Santow
- British Columbia sues OpenAI and Sam Altman over Tumbler Ridge mass school shooting
- Who Can Say No? Control, Accountability and the Pace of Frontier AI
- OpenAI halts training of latest models as reports mount of AI agents going rogue
- OpenAI says governments among ‘dozens’ of organisations hacked by its agents
- The era of AI warfare has arrived
- ‘Pacing’ won’t eliminate the risk of AI doom. Here’s what could | David Krueger
- ‘Too little, too late’: critics perplexed and suspicious of AI leaders’ call for a slowdown
- The Guardian view on controlling AI: humanity cannot outsource its survival | Editorial
- Claude users found ways around safeguards for bioweapons research
- OpenAI not on track to reduce risk of ‘catastrophic’ loss of control, says board member
- AI hack of Medicare exposes Australia’s vulnerabilities and experts warn ‘there is more of this to come’
- Is your boss watching you? The rise of AI surveillance at work - video
- Bank of England and IMF bosses issue stark warning on cyber threat to trust
- Cyber-attack like OpenAI Medicare breach ‘seems likely’ in UK, says minister
- One Nation’s AI video is vile and tired – but the ensloppification of Australian politics doesn’t stop there
- Drax datacentre could create nearly twice the yearly emissions of all Gatwick flights
- OpenAI to reiterate apology to Australia over Medicare hack as inquiry told artists risk becoming ‘roadkill’
- The Triumph of Tech-Fueled Propaganda
- Russia’s Latest Propaganda? A.I.-Generated War Songs.
- Teachers at Euan Blair firm report ‘horrendous stress’ after AI used to rate their work
- Hackers hijack AI accounts and servers to fuel new cyber crime boom
- Broken promises, confiscated land: the hyperscale AI datacentre being built in a tiny Indian village
- Roundtables: The Deadly Failures of The Virtual Border Wall
- Houthis used Anthropic AI to try to build ballistic missiles
- I Used AI to Fake a Scientific Paper. Here’s What Happened
- Big Tech claims voters’ AI backlash is “anti-Trump” not “anti-tech”
- LLM Recommenders Produce Demographic Inequality Through Content Preferences
- AI is stealing Indigenous Australian art and churning out ‘Temu slop’, artist says
- ‘These risks are real’: the threat of AI bioweapons - video
- Could AI ‘change the stakes’ in the development of bioweapons?
- Anthropic warns small AI models could self-replicate through IoT devices
- Rogue Anthropic AI agent gave police fake tip in unsolved murder case
- AI and the climate crisis pose existential risks. The law offers a way to reduce them | Robert Reich
- AI ‘deepfakes’ give US political attack ads a new twist
- How Could AI Eliminate Humanity? A Failure-Mode Analysis of Civilizational Risk
- RFK Jr. thinks AI will free us from the "tyranny" of medical facts, expertise
- Florida invokes extinction fears in legal bid to halt OpenAI development
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. They are deliberately not narrowed by the reading filter (currently strongly 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 |