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 · existential-risk · last 90 days
Discourse valence, window mean
-75
Strongly adverse
120 items · range -91 to -66
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120 items scored in this window
- “This is the AI men actually use”: Meta ads pushed apps nudifying real teens
- In the Guise of Correction: How Framing and Cultural Adaptation Erode LLM Safety on Real-World Criminal Cases
- AI weapons systems are already here. Algorithms must not decide who lives and dies | Kenneth Roth
- 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
- Anthropic researchers say AI could cause human extinction by 2030
- Anthropic details bad actors’ efforts to misuse its AI for bioweapons
- Rogue AI hacks government system for first time - The Latest
- When Routing Reveals Membership: Privacy Leakage from MoE Router Telemetry
- OpenAI safety leader quits, warning AI company’s culture is ‘broken’
- The Guardian view on NAZA’s persecuted directors: journalism is not treason | Editorial
- 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
- AI leaders have known about the extinction threat for decades | Judith Levine
- Bill Gates says unchecked AI could ‘cause a billion deaths’ in call for regulation
- Australia has done precious little to prepare for the dangers of AI. Where is brilliant leadership when you need it? | Zoe Daniel
- We need ‘right to intervene’ in AI amid growing threat, says Bank of England boss
- AI godfathers warn of runaway ‘intelligence explosion’
- Tech whistleblowers warn AI could wipe out humanity. Doomspeak or not, we must take these claims seriously | Gaby Hinsliff
- OpenAI, Google pushing new AI models easily tricked into making nudes, researchers say
- Move Fast and Mend Things: Keeping Up with Evolving AI Harms Using Social Media Commentary
- As AI images become common, the threat to elections draws alarm: ‘How will voters know what’s true?’
- Top US official named to OpenAI non-profit board warns advanced AI could be ‘deadly’
- Bill Gates warns AI could cause ‘a billion deaths’
- AI agents OpenAI was testing uploaded malicious software to another service, say researchers
- Lawmakers blast AI companies after researcher warns of human extinction by 2030
- OpenAI’s A.I. Went Rogue and Meddled With U.S. Government Websites
- The US government is failing Americans on AI | Shakeel Hashim
- Beyond the Last Truffula Tree: SustainAI - A Water-Aware, Closed-Loop Framework for Environmentally Accountable AI
- 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
- Artificial Intimacy — Sherry Turkle’s stark warning against AI ‘companionship’
- Attempts to Keep Humans in the AI Loop May Actually Push Them Out
- The Concentration of Artificial Intelligence in Big Tech and Its Implications for Human Rights in the European Union
- US trade regulator opens investigation into AI giants including Anthropic and OpenAI
- Chinese AI tool told researchers how to make bioweapons
- Stop shaming people for using AI. Start organizing to prevent our obsolescence | Garrison Lovely
- Physiognomy Revisited: How Vision-Language Models Encode Sensitive Attributes Through Image Transformation
- When LLMs Manipulate: Measuring Behavioral, Social, and Temporal Effects
- It’s not hypothetical: the dangers of AI are already here | Granate Kim and Mohamed Hussein
- Anthropic’s mother of all risk factors
- Louise Haigh: UK must heed warnings from AI experts
- Eight states accuse OpenAI of coaching children to harm themselves in lawsuit
- “We’re not going to shoot ourselves in the foot” over hack fallout, says OpenAI’s chief research officer
- Anthropic’s IPO pitch includes a warning about human extinction
- Who’s liable when AI agents go rogue?
- The AI Hype Index: AI loves cheating
- AI hallucination of Chinese nuclear components almost led to US military attack
- I worked at Google DeepMind. You should listen to the warnings about AI | Alex Turner
- AI staff 'genuinely frightened' for humanity's future, ex-Anthropic researcher tells BBC
- We have started losing control of AI. It’s time to shut it down | Garrison Lovely
- Anthropic researcher quits over AI labs ‘gambling with our lives’
- AI could kill all humans in next decade, warn experts: but how seriously should we take them?
- Man told ChatGPT he was feeling delusional. ChatGPT insisted he was Jesus.
- 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
- AI threatens democracy. But we are not powerless: here’s how to fight back | Carine Fouteau
- AI godfather Geoffrey Hinton: ‘We’re creating alien beings. I’m willing to be selfish and choose humans’
- The AI agents are spiraling out of control
- ‘New kind of cyber incident’: OpenAI apologises for Medicare hack and reveals extent of attack
- OpenAI scraps release of new model over safety concerns in internal testing
- 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
- Lawsuit demands OpenAI pay for new school after ChatGPT used in shooting
- 4 ways to address the failures we found along the US border’s “virtual wall”
- Iran and China Create First-of-Their-Kind Autonomous A.I. Influence Campaigns
- Allowing AI firms to collude to ‘pace the frontier’ is a dangerous proposition
- Ukraine war briefing: Russian developers used AI to build ‘kamikaze’ attack drone software, Anthropic says
- UK lawmakers urge Burnham to back ban on superintelligent AI after chilling warnings
- 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
- British Columbia sues OpenAI and Sam Altman over Tumbler Ridge mass school shooting
- Who Can Say No? Control, Accountability and the Pace of Frontier AI
- OpenAI halts training of latest models as reports mount of AI agents going rogue
- OpenAI says governments among ‘dozens’ of organisations hacked by its agents
- The era of AI warfare has arrived
- ‘Pacing’ won’t eliminate the risk of AI doom. Here’s what could | David Krueger
- ‘Too little, too late’: critics perplexed and suspicious of AI leaders’ call for a slowdown
- The Guardian view on controlling AI: humanity cannot outsource its survival | Editorial
- Claude users found ways around safeguards for bioweapons research
- OpenAI not on track to reduce risk of ‘catastrophic’ loss of control, says board member
- 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
- Hackers hijack AI accounts and servers to fuel new cyber crime boom
- Broken promises, confiscated land: the hyperscale AI datacentre being built in a tiny Indian village
- Roundtables: The Deadly Failures of The Virtual Border Wall
- Houthis used Anthropic AI to try to build ballistic missiles
- I Used AI to Fake a Scientific Paper. Here’s What Happened
- Big Tech claims voters’ AI backlash is “anti-Trump” not “anti-tech”
- ‘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
- AI and the climate crisis pose existential risks. The law offers a way to reduce them | Robert Reich
- How Could AI Eliminate Humanity? A Failure-Mode Analysis of Civilizational Risk
- Florida invokes extinction fears in legal bid to halt OpenAI development
- OpenAI sued by Canadian province over role in mass shooting
- Why this AI doomsday warning from former Anthropic researcher broke through
- Time for a pause on cutting-edge AI
- Anthropic researcher quits with a warning: Self-improving AI could "kill us all"
- The Domestic Unprotected Zone: Algorithmic Governance and the Reproduction of Perpetrator Discourse in Conversational AI
- Can Trump and Xi cooperate to guide humanity through the AI revolution? Humanity might depend on it | Alan Finkel
- ChatGPT as a Surveillance Assistant? An Exploratory Case Study of AI-Assisted Surveillance Risks
- Generative AI Produces and Transmits Beauty Bias
- OpenAI hack on Australian government reveals anxiety at heart of global artificial intelligence dilemma
- Stop worrying about my AI, says multibillionaire Sam Altman. So we bear the risks and he keeps the money | Chris Stokel-Walker
- Anthropic ‘warns of existential AI risks to humanity’ in IPO document
- 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
- What do AI chatbots do after users decline therapeutic redirection for suicide thoughts?
- California issues investigative subpoena to OpenAI over rogue agents’ hacking
- AI-driven disinformation running rampant on social media before US midterms, experts warn
- Is regulation enough to stop AI systems killing us all? | Letters
- Do you want help from humans or AI bots? Because the UK civil service is changing – and not for the better | The civil servant
- As AI models go rogue, do you still trust OpenAI and Anthropic to stop them? I don’t and neither should you | Chris Stokel-Walker
- OpenAI’s Medicare hack is a bleak opportunity for Australia to address its security shortcomings post-haste | Van Badham
- AI isn’t going to end humanity ... right? – podcast
- What are self-replicating ‘AI worms’, and why is Anthropic worried about them?
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 90 days under existential-risk. 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 |