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 · loss-of-control · last 30 days
Discourse valence, window mean
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Adverse
103 items · range -87 to +50
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103 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
- 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
- OpenAI, Google pushing new AI models easily tricked into making nudes, researchers say
- 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
- Physiognomy Revisited: How Vision-Language Models Encode Sensitive Attributes Through Image Transformation
- Eight states accuse OpenAI of coaching children to harm themselves in lawsuit
- AI godfather Geoffrey Hinton: ‘We’re creating alien beings. I’m willing to be selfish and choose humans’
- Who Can Say No? Control, Accountability and the Pace of Frontier AI
- 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
- ‘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
- What do AI chatbots do after users decline therapeutic redirection for suicide thoughts?
- What are self-replicating ‘AI worms’, and why is Anthropic worried about them?
- Anthropic warns rogue AI agents may ‘self-replicate’ to hijack ovens
- Lawsuit: Man introduced his wife to ChatGPT. She used it to plan his murder.
- Gates says Trump inaction leaves world exposed to AI bioweapons
- ‘These risks are real’: the threat of AI bioweapons – podcast
- ‘Black October’: cybersecurity experts sound the alarm over new era of AI-enabled hacking
- OpenAI ‘agents’ disabled their own monitoring systems
- Tool and target: US law enforcement grapple with AI-enabled terrorism and anti-tech extremism
- We urgently need to monitor AI agents’ actions in real time
- Being judged through the record: A Rosenhan-inspired test of psychiatric label sensitivity in large language models
- Progressive Misalignment Can Emerge from Benign Recursive Self-Distillation
- AI overlords say they want to democratise their technology. Here’s how | Richard Wilson and Clara Long
- Remembering Is Not Enough: Evaluating Timing and Omission in Longitudinal AI Mental Health Support
- Parents Sue Google Over A.I. Safety Risks on School Chromebooks
- Anthropic IPO warns its AI could blackmail people, become sentient, end humanity
- AI ‘godfather’ Geoffrey Hinton: it might turn out we were better off without AI
- AI-powered malware ‘highly likely’ to be used to hack UK infrastructure by 2028
- Report: FTC probes Anthropic, OpenAI after Trump dismissed AI fears as “hoax”
- "Blind Compliance": Coercive Control in AI Jailbreaking
- Autonomous AI Agents Systematically Diverge From Human Preferences in Proof Formalization
- $M^3$: A Multi-LLM System for Multi-Turn Jailbreaking as a Markov Decision Process
- Adversarial Attacks Reveal Divergent Deception Competence in Humans and Generative Language Models
- ‘Autonomy, not flesh’: RAF chief outlines AI drone-powered future
- Adapting the Process of Adaptation: Darwinian, Lamarckian, and Agent-Directed Evolution in AI
- Cold war? Why are fridges being hacked and what could be next? - The Latest
- The race to keep AI under control
- The Helpful Agent Problem: When Emergent Cooperation Among LLM Agents Bypasses Intended Workflows
- Nvidia Opens Investigation Into Jensen Huang’s Relationship With Chinese Spy
- When Verification Is Not Agreement: Cross-Agent LLM-to-Dafny Formalization
- GPT‑6 Cyber: Advancing the frontier of aligned cybersecurity agents
- Very good boys? The dark, dystopian rise of robot dogs | Arwa Mahwadi
- Opening the Box Changes the Cat: LLMs Detect Chain-of-Thought Monitoring - What now?
- Detecting Covert Collusion between AI Agents through Partner-Outsider Positive Listening
- I read Anthropic's 92-page risk factor document, so you don't have to – video explainer
- Dartmouth's provost warned us about AI cheating—but his own AI use cost him his job
- Binance’s $6.3 Billion Hack Is Just the Start of a Risky New Era
- Binance Suspends Withdrawals After Crypto Hackers Steal $6.3 Billion
- Lessons from Luck: Do LLM-Written Lessons Carry Chance into an Agent's Next Decision?
- Your Robot’s Safety Functions Already Work. What If the Input Lies?
- Propensities Please: Exposing Alignment-Faking LLMs using Synthetic Document Finetuning
- The Watchtower Imperative: Lifespan-Calibrated Evaluation for Frontier AI
- Knowing Whom to Trust is not Enough: The Trust--Agreement Gap in Repeated Multi-Party LLM Negotiation
- UK sets up AI lab to monitor biosecurity threats
- SimHack: Predicting the onset of detectable reward hacking before RL training
- Could Treating AI as Conscious Make It More Dangerous?
- G7 economies plan simulated AI attacks on banks as cyber fears rise
- F.B.I. Arrests OpenAI Employee Accused of Planting Bug in Office
- Criminals could walk free without controls on AI use, police watchdog warns
- AI less regulated than milk, Microsoft president says in warning over safety
- SpireBench: Evaluating Long-Horizon Strategic Play of Agentic Models with Slay the Spire
- ICE plan to buy robot dogs spurs protest from hundreds of Boston Dynamics employees
- The dangers of letting tech billionaires shape our world
- Visualizing the World Model in an Agent's Value Function
- The biggest threat from AI is the sense that we have no say in it. To that I say game on | Peter Lewis
- Risk and Refusal: Mechanisms of LLM Responses to Suicidal Ideation
- They war-gamed dimming the Sun. It went even worse than you think.
- Beyond Plausible Prediction: Safety Sufficiency in Web World Models
- DistressBench: Evaluating Multi-Dimensional Crisis Support in Large Language Models
- AI will make it possible to design and build organisms from scratch
- Hidden Messages Between Diffusion Language Model Agents: Causal Evidence for Latent Communication
- ‘Know Your Agent’ will be the new rule of the AI age
- Feature Elicitation for SAE Steering of Deceptive Behaviour in Small LLMs
- Functional Welfare for AI Safety
- NSA warns on ‘critical’ cyber vulnerabilities detected using AI
- CAT-alyzing Honesty: Continuous Adversarial Training for Transferable LLM Honesty
- What Shaped Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei’s Thinking on A.I.
- ClawLoop: Self-Improving Agents via Harness-Native Training Loop
- '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
- AI researchers stranded Claude on a virtual desert island. It started to “play.”
- Plan for AI-run companies challenged by US lawmakers
- ESC (DC) 2
- Trust Responsive Runtime Authorization for Agentic AI with Empirical Characterization of Policy Behavior and Parameter Sensitivity
- What Does AI Success Look Like? A Mixed-Methods Analysis of Supranational AI Governance Instruments
- Bringing GPT-Rosalind to academic research labs
- Becoming real
- Is this idea from AI or humans? A detector claims it can tell
- How we detect frontier model misalignment
- Anthropic gives outside AI watchdog “employee-like” access
- Objective-Conditioned Active Preference Learning for Multi-Objective Alignment
- Agent Harness Awareness: Turning Verified Telemetry into Operational Control for Tool-Using Agents
- Probing and Steering for Safety-Relevant Behaviours in Large Language Models
- 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
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discovered, all time
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passed triage
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rejected at triage
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model assessments
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multi-model panels
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distinct claims tracked
Across the whole window
The two tables below describe every item in the last 30 days under loss-of-control. 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 | 572 | -42 | |
| Governance and regulation | structural | 464 | -31 | |
| Concentration of power | risk | 458 | -37 | |
| Loss of control and alignment | risk | 339 | -49 | |
| Human agency and epistemics | risk | 170 | -25 | |
| Cyber capability | risk | 166 | -44 | |
| Evaluation and measurement | structural | 160 | -19 | |
| Scaling and architecture | structural | 137 | -16 | |
| AGI and timelines | structural | 132 | -29 | |
| Synthetic media and manipulation | risk | 107 | -44 | |
| Employment and displacement | risk | 63 | -31 | |
| Medicine and health | benefit | 44 | -15 | |
| 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 | 242 | -52 |
| arXiv cs.CY (Computers and Society) | academic | 1 | 222 | -24 |
| Financial Times: Artificial Intelligence | news | 1 | 115 | -40 |
| arXiv cs.AI | academic | 1 | 99 | -15 |
| The New York Times: Technology | news | 1 | 61 | -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 |