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 favourable items would move with how many were filtered out rather than with the discourse.
22 items read as favourable
- EvoBelief: Falsifiable World Models for Self-Improving LLM Agents
- The U.S. Nuclear Plant Fleet Is Leaning into AI
- AREX-2: Advancing Self-Improving Agents through Long-Horizon Reflective Tasks
- Safety Nudges: User-Facing Interventions for Real-Time AI Risk Awareness
- Incipit: Axiom-Grounded Scaffolding for Human-AI Literary Creation
- Self-Evolving Harness on Multiple Tasks with the Agent as Its Own Optimizer
- John Healey pledges to use budget to harness power of AI to bolster Britain’s security
- An Autonomous GeoAI Agent for Arctic Eco-Navigation
- Detecting AI Training in Datacentre Power
- Agent Harness Awareness: Turning Verified Telemetry into Operational Control for Tool-Using Agents
- AI agents run this automated biology lab that sequences DNA and more
- Could Abdul El-Sayed’s plan for AI companies stave off catastrophe? | Jerel Ezell
- ‘There is no inevitable dystopia’: Jeanette Winterson on AI and the future of humanity
- A pedagogically guided LLM framework for scaffolding human-AI cocreation and preserving learners' agency and creativity
- UK to invest £100m in 'world first' AI Biosecurity Lab
- Probing and Steering for Safety-Relevant Behaviours in Large Language Models
- Situating Vulnerability: An Ethical Governance Framework for Anthropomorphic AI Interaction
- From Natural Language Intent to Executable Control: Hierarchical Feedback-Guided LLM Planning for Multi-component Cyber-Physical Systems
- VEPA: Verified Evolving Formal Policy for Lifelong LLM Agent Guardrails
- GPEvac: GNN-Based PPO for Adaptive Evacuation Routing During Shooting Events
- Machine Unlearning for Speech Question Answering in Large Audio-Language Models
- ‘Multifunctional’ brain implant translates speech and gestures in real time
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 favourable), 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 |