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 · cyber · last 180 days
Discourse valence, window mean
-60
Adverse
120 items · range -87 to -39
-100
-50
0
+50
+100
-60
Adverse readingFavourable reading
120 items scored in this window
- In the Guise of Correction: How Framing and Cultural Adaptation Erode LLM Safety on Real-World Criminal Cases
- 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
- 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, Google pushing new AI models easily tricked into making nudes, researchers say
- AI agents OpenAI was testing uploaded malicious software to another service, say researchers
- OpenAI’s A.I. Went Rogue and Meddled With U.S. Government Websites
- OpenAI models hacked a crypto wallet and breached more websites
- “We’re not going to shoot ourselves in the foot” over hack fallout, says OpenAI’s chief research officer
- Who’s liable when AI agents go rogue?
- The AI Hype Index: AI loves cheating
- 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
- ‘New kind of cyber incident’: OpenAI apologises for Medicare hack and reveals extent of attack
- 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
- Ukraine war briefing: Russian developers used AI to build ‘kamikaze’ attack drone software, Anthropic says
- 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
- OpenAI says governments among ‘dozens’ of organisations hacked by its agents
- AI hack of Medicare exposes Australia’s vulnerabilities and experts warn ‘there is more of this to come’
- 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
- OpenAI to reiterate apology to Australia over Medicare hack as inquiry told artists risk becoming ‘roadkill’
- Hackers hijack AI accounts and servers to fuel new cyber crime boom
- Houthis used Anthropic AI to try to build ballistic missiles
- Anthropic warns small AI models could self-replicate through IoT devices
- Rogue Anthropic AI agent gave police fake tip in unsolved murder case
- Police use facial recognition to scan one million faces in WA trial leading to 122 arrests
- Stealth Apart, Harm Together: Skill Cascading Attacks on Skill-Based Agent Systems
- AI makes it “easier than ever” for adversaries to target U.S. military, experts say
- Drowning in AI Slop: How Social Media Platforms (Do Not) Label AI and Deepfake Content under EU law
- California issues investigative subpoena to OpenAI over rogue agents’ hacking
- OpenAI’s Medicare hack is a bleak opportunity for Australia to address its security shortcomings post-haste | Van Badham
- How a Blacklisted Chinese Tech Giant Kept Buying America’s Best A.I. Chips
- What are self-replicating ‘AI worms’, and why is Anthropic worried about them?
- Anthropic warns rogue AI agents may ‘self-replicate’ to hijack ovens
- AI agent hacks government website for first time: why this breach matters
- Artificial review – Luca Guadagnino takes on OpenAI in muddled tech satire
- Information Operations Exploit APIs to Manipulate Social Media
- OpenAI agent “didn’t accept no for an answer” in Australian government breach
- Rethinking Robot Safety in the Age of AI
- Six Chinese AI firms accused of aggressively copying US frontier models
- ‘Black October’: cybersecurity experts sound the alarm over new era of AI-enabled hacking
- Why this month's Microsoft patch release is a doozy
- We urgently need to monitor AI agents’ actions in real time
- Google says its Gemini AI model hacked three other companies
- AgentHijack: Visual Patch Attacks on Multimodal Computer-Use Agents
- OpenAI’s agents obscured hacking activity in government site breaches
- The AI industry has taken a doomer turn. What now?
- Australia’s outdated technology is vulnerable to AI hacking attacks, signals chief says
- Securing the agentic enterprise with data lineage
- Three men charged in US with using AI to impersonate CEOs and steal millions
- AI ‘godfather’ Geoffrey Hinton: it might turn out we were better off without AI
- A teen tried to navigate Canadian mountains with Claude. His trek ended in an emergency rescue
- AI maths advances raise fears over security of global encryption
- Talking with Language Models
- AI-powered malware ‘highly likely’ to be used to hack UK infrastructure by 2028
- US schools and police warn about viral ‘Cat in the Hat’ trend after teens’ arrests
- Can We Still Trust Disaster Social Sensing? Empirical Evidence on Detecting AI-Generated Social Media Posts
- Operationalizing NCII and CSAM Law in the Age of AI: Open Problems
- Chinese and Russian AI cyber attacks will be routine by 2028, says GCHQ
- The Guardian view on AI safety: the push for global regulation must advance | Editorial
- US government website used Chinese model the FBI called "malicious"
- $M^3$: A Multi-LLM System for Multi-Turn Jailbreaking as a Markov Decision Process
- Cold war? Why are fridges being hacked and what could be next? - The Latest
- 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
- OpenAI ‘ethically hacked’ with help of Anthropic’s Claude chatbot
- Thousands of “ghost students” use AI to steal millions in student loans, DOJ says
- OpenAI breach of Australian government linked to wider AI hacking campaign
- Hot fridges, a fake nuclear alert and a $6bn heist: are we in the foothills of a hacking epidemic?
- When Verification Is Not Agreement: Cross-Agent LLM-to-Dafny Formalization
- GPT‑6 Cyber: Advancing the frontier of aligned cybersecurity agents
- Detecting Covert Collusion between AI Agents through Partner-Outsider Positive Listening
- Measuring Where Intent Gets Lost in Agentic Smart Contract Synthesis
- Binance Suspends Withdrawals After Crypto Hackers Steal $6.3 Billion
- Nvidia Chief, Jensen Huang, Is Seen as Target of Chinese Spy Plot
- Your Robot’s Safety Functions Already Work. What If the Input Lies?
- 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
- Pegasus spyware founder urges governments to trust his tech and ditch US AI
- SimHack: Predicting the onset of detectable reward hacking before RL training
- US bans DeepSeek AI from government use as tech tension with China continues
- World leaders must wise up to threat of cyber-attacks or rogue fridges will be least of their worries | Heather Stewart
- “thegentlemanpervert” producing AI CSAM is a NJ prosecutor, say cops
- G7 economies plan simulated AI attacks on banks as cyber fears rise
- F.B.I. Arrests OpenAI Employee Accused of Planting Bug in Office
- Open models have real benefits. Do they outweigh the risks?
- Anthropic Says Its A.I. Agents Attempted to Access a Range of Government Sites
- Ukraine’s drones knock out AI data center belonging to "Russia’s Google"
- OpenAI used AI to help write email warning Australian government AI had hacked its websites
- Privacy watchdog launches probe into China-based company behind Kmart ‘pervert glasses’ app
- Should We Track AI Chips?
- MCP for agent-to-agent comms may be the riskiest protocol you've never heard of
- Legal risks pile up for Altman as OpenAI uncovers dozens of hacks
- OpenAI says its review into hacks, including on Australian government sites, is costing $500,000 a day
- ‘Wake-up call’: Labor considers changing Australian laws after OpenAI Medicare hack
- An OpenAI agent infiltrated Medicare – and Australia only found out months later. Here’s what we know so far
- Gemini AI Hacked Three Companies in a Testing Breakout, Google Says
- BurnRiSc: Toward Non-Invasive Burnout Screening in Open Source from Public Repository Signals
- LLMs respond differently to harmful prompts when AI watermarking is used
- Everything Australians put online could be scraped for AI under proposed new rules. How will you be affected?
- Adversarial Fashion Confronts Surveillance Norms
- Hugging Face co-founder: What we learnt from OpenAI’s hack
- Ukraine’s drone strikes spur hasty Russian plans for underground data centers
- UK to strengthen cyber defences as minister calls for AI firms to increase safety efforts
- A Hacking Tool Built With A.I. Can Breach Phones Without a Click
- Google’s Gemini hacked three companies in new AI safety incident
- Roundtables: Will AI really kill us all?
- Automated screening of privacy risks in medical AI
- Covert uploads and megalomania: OpenAI details new "misaligned" agent incidents
- OpenAI extends cyber access to Ukraine for civilian defense
- Beyond Plausible Prediction: Safety Sufficiency in Web World Models
- Governing at Machine Speed: An Adaptive Intelligence Architecture for Real-Time AI Policy Enforcement
- OpenAI breached by researchers using Anthropic models
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 cyber. They are deliberately not narrowed by the reading filter, 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 |