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.


Range
Mean discourse valence per day · education · last 365 days
-100-500+50+100 2026-09-10: -17 (1 items)2026-09-11: +3 (1 items)2026-09-16: -6 (1 items)2026-09-17: -51 (1 items)2026-09-18: 0 (1 items)2026-09-21: -48 (1 items)2026-09-22: -39 (1 items)2026-09-23: -17 (1 items)2026-09-24: -37 (3 items)2026-09-30: -60 (1 items)2026-10-05: -41 (1 items)2026-10-08: -50 (1 items)2026-10-12: -8 (1 items)2026-10-15: -22 (2 items)2026-10-21: +50 (1 items)2026-10-22: +5 (2 items)2026-10-26: -17 (3 items)2026-10-27: +17 (3 items)2026-11-05: -20 (1 items)2026-11-06: +1 (1 items) 2026-09-10 2026-11-06

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.

Discourse valence, favourable
+41
Favourable
3 items · range +24 to +50
Adverse readingFavourable reading
Mean across the 3 items matching this filter under education in the last 365 days.

3 items read as favourable

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 365 days under education. 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

TopicBranchItemsMeanPosition
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.

SourceKindTierItemsMean
The Guardian: Artificial Intelligencenews1241-52
arXiv cs.CY (Computers and Society)academic1217-24
Financial Times: Artificial Intelligencenews1112-40
arXiv cs.AIacademic199-15
The New York Times: Technologynews160-36
Ars Technica: AInews159-51
MIT Technology Review: AInews134-42
Natureacademic131-25
BBC News: Technologynews129-35
OpenAIlab124-8
arXiv cs.LG (Machine Learning)academic124-16
IEEE Spectrum: AInews119-19
The Economist: Science and Technologynews110-37
CSET, Georgetowngovernment19-37
Microsoft Researchlab180
Google DeepMindlab16-4
Google AI Bloglab12-9