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 · power-concentration · last 30 days
Discourse valence, window mean
-52
Adverse
120 items · range -79 to -31
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-52
Adverse readingFavourable reading
120 items scored in this window
- Knowing Is Not Telling: Identity Ossification in LLM Representations of Trans-border Communities
- Auditing AI-Washing in German Startups: A Mixed-Methods Study of Marketing Claims and Perceptions
- Physiognomy Revisited: How Vision-Language Models Encode Sensitive Attributes Through Image Transformation
- When LLMs Manipulate: Measuring Behavioral, Social, and Temporal Effects
- AI threatens democracy. But we are not powerless: here’s how to fight back | Carine Fouteau
- Is your boss watching you? The rise of AI surveillance at work - video
- 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
- AI ‘deepfakes’ give US political attack ads a new twist
- ChatGPT as a Surveillance Assistant? An Exploratory Case Study of AI-Assisted Surveillance Risks
- Police use facial recognition to scan one million faces in WA trial leading to 122 arrests
- Generative AI Produces and Transmits Beauty Bias
- Will it be AI or the climate crisis that ends humanity? We can make it neither | Adam McKay and Philip Eubanks
- AI and The Enclosure of the Scientific Commons
- "No human at the helm": Delaware plan would let AI agents run entire businesses
- Students fear AI is about to kill their future
- The Capability Transfer: Cohort Reversal, Codified Expertise, and the Adaptability Tax of AI Transformation
- Whose Data, Whose Benchmark? A User-Centric Framework for Auditing Evaluation Resources
- Three men charged in US with using AI to impersonate CEOs and steal millions
- AI doctors’ orders come with a sky-high bill
- ‘Elonville’: Mississippi residents say Musk’s xAI is buying up homes if they don’t sue over noise
- Chinese and Russian AI cyber attacks will be routine by 2028, says GCHQ
- ‘Digital hostile environment’: AI secretly being embedded across Home Office, report claims
- Americans, this is your chance to slap down the tech broligarchs
- "Blind Compliance": Coercive Control in AI Jailbreaking
- A.I. and Its Dangers Are Embedded In the Midterm Elections
- The Male Abstraction Bias in Internet Culture and Large Language Models
- Albanese government warned it’s ‘sleepwalking into another robodebt scenario’ over use of algorithms and AI
- How A.I. Is Making It Easier Than Ever to Microtarget Voters
- AI is less regulated than milk, says Microsoft president
- ‘Autonomy, not flesh’: RAF chief outlines AI drone-powered future
- UK ministers explore compulsory AI safety reporting
- ‘A serious failure’: CPS prosecutor cites imaginary case to high court after AI search
- Making the internet better for AI agents might make it worse for everyone else
- Australians are yet to see the benefits of AI and datacentres – and US midterms show they could be political kryptonite
- AI evaluators favor job applications written by certain AI models, independent of candidate quality
- Thousands of “ghost students” use AI to steal millions in student loans, DOJ says
- BoE’s Bailey tells G30 they ‘have got to address’ AI agent concerns
- Russia and US seek to block plan for binding rules on autonomous weapons
- Activists across Europe prepare two days of protests against datacentres
- Hot fridges, a fake nuclear alert and a $6bn heist: are we in the foothills of a hacking epidemic?
- “Does Meta think we can’t read?” Meta abandons sketchy commercial terms update.
- I watched a humanoid robot clean my apartment. It felt like a taste of the future.
- Technohybridism: Recursive Semantic Normalization in AI-Mediated Societies
- How Generative AI Redefines Personalization and Diversity in the Newsroom
- The Popular Get More Popular: Auditing Brand Bias in Generative Search
- The hidden cost of flexible work in academia: women do more parenting
- Scare campaigns: Victoria’s major parties trade blows over AI-generated videos of leaders in election ads
- Voters Rejected A.I. in the Midterms. Now Comes an Era of Scrutiny.
- OpenAI’s approach to mathematics does not add up
- Very good boys? The dark, dystopian rise of robot dogs | Arwa Mahwadi
- Democratic governors elected on promises to stop data centre building
- Our current AI moment has darker historical echoes
- Palantir AI tech unused or little used by 29 NHS trusts said to be benefiting from it
- 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
- Experts warn AI copyright changes could breach Australian constitution and spark huge compensation rights case
- Binance Suspends Withdrawals After Crypto Hackers Steal $6.3 Billion
- Trump declares robot imports a national security threat
- What is it like to work when your co-workers are AI agents?
- Nvidia Chief, Jensen Huang, Is Seen as Target of Chinese Spy Plot
- AI bots flooded 2023 UK government consultation on disposable vapes ban
- In a rush to lure AI companies, the Australian government risks undoing a creative ecosystem that has taken decades to build | Dan Guthrie
- Will the real Anthropic please stand up
- 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
- Knowing Whom to Trust is not Enough: The Trust--Agreement Gap in Repeated Multi-Party LLM Negotiation
- Pegasus spyware founder urges governments to trust his tech and ditch US AI
- Opposition deepfake video sparks outrage in Spain ahead of election
- AI oversight needs a different model to banking
- Fixing Britain’s welfare state and the limits of AI policymaking
- AI firms say UK has a year to head off datacentre protests before construction is threatened
- Meta Ordered to Pay $25 Billion for Deceiving Users on Privacy
- Could Treating AI as Conscious Make It More Dangerous?
- Labor and the Coalition are poised to take a reckless gamble on AI. Haven’t they realised community support has collapsed? | Edward Santow and Sarah Sacher
- China’s villages pay the price for Beijing’s AI ambitions
- US bans DeepSeek AI from government use as tech tension with China continues
- US prosecutors allege Saudi royal links in OpenAI bugging case
- World leaders must wise up to threat of cyber-attacks or rogue fridges will be least of their worries | Heather Stewart
- Inside the long, bitter fight over one man’s quest to build the biggest AI datacenter in California
- The dress rehearsal for an AI reckoning
- “thegentlemanpervert” producing AI CSAM is a NJ prosecutor, say cops
- VoteGEO-Bench: Measuring the Impact of Generative Engine Optimization on Electoral Visibility
- Exhausted Parents Are Turning to A.I. Apps Despite the Risks
- F.B.I. Arrests OpenAI Employee Accused of Planting Bug in Office
- AFL tells Sportsbet to stop using players in AI generated content
- Open models have real benefits. Do they outweigh the risks?
- Ukraine’s drones knock out AI data center belonging to "Russia’s Google"
- Ukraine’s drone strikes spur hasty Russian plans for underground data centers
- ICE plan to buy robot dogs spurs protest from hundreds of Boston Dynamics employees
- Atlas of MICCAI: 28 Years of Representation, Collaboration, and the Road to Inclusion
- The dangers of letting tech billionaires shape our world
- Gender, Sexual Orientation, and the One-Year Refugee Bar: A Computational Study of Bill C-12 and Canadian Refugee Adjudication
- The GenAI Who Knew Too Little: Revisiting Transactive Memory Systems in Human GenAI Collaboration
- What Do We Mean When We Say 'F*ck AI'?: Moral Panic, Semantic Indeterminacy, and the Reification of Techno-Capitalism
- The agentic web is here
- Cheap AI-Assisted Reverse Engineering and What It Will Do
- Autonomous Cyber Weapons as AI-Enabled Digital Harms: A Platform Accountability Framework
- UK government met 137 businesses over AI datacentres – but no environmental groups
- Prefigured forgetting. Memory, the right to be forgotten and artificial intelligence
- The biggest threat from AI is the sense that we have no say in it. To that I say game on | Peter Lewis
- Who May Overrule the Agent? Evidence-Gated Authority in LLM Review Institutions
- Automated screening of privacy risks in medical AI
- Who Can Evaluate AI Independently? A Framework for Analysing Evaluation Infrastructure
- UK found to be ‘dangerously’ reliant on China for critical minerals needed for defence and AI
- Who Gets Counted? Large Language Models, Informative Refusal, and Downstream Bias in Name-Based Demographic Classification
- OpenAI slashes funding target by $10bn as tech anxieties mount
- Executives play catch-up as AI governance risks evolve
- Governing Artificial Intelligence as a Macro Socio-Technical Regime: The F-I-C-P Framework for Regime-Level AI Infrastructure and Governance
- ‘Know Your Agent’ will be the new rule of the AI age
- Winner of the Prix Goncourt literary prize admits to using AI
- Will Democrats stall the AI boom?
- Several Democrats renew calls for datacenter pauses after blue wave
- A thousand fewer paths to root
- It’s time to block reckless AI IPOs and tax billionaires | Naomi Klein and Ilana Glazer
- Can scientists reliably tell if a novel is written using AI?
- Elon Musk Says SpaceX and Tesla Are Exploring a Merger
- China’s block on SoftBank deal fires the starting gun on the robot wars
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 30 days under power-concentration. 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 |