Jobs & economy
Discussion about jobs, pay, automation and who benefits from AI. A report of layoffs and a prediction about future jobs are different claims, even if both express concern.
Documents in this category: 48
Read the source posts →Published snapshot: · Checking for updates…
UNDERSTAND THE INDEX
AI fear: what are people concerned about?
Fear of AI is not one question. It can mean concern about a job, a convincing fake, private data or losing control of a powerful system. Trust can coexist with those concerns: someone may find an AI tool useful while questioning the company behind it.
This project measures expressions of fear and trust in the posts and news it collects. It does not measure how everyone feels, establish whether a news claim is true, or predict harm.
The current discussion sample
Fear & Trust Index: 54.7 / 100.
292 documents from 229 distinct authors and outlets in the published 24-hour sample.
Snapshot:
Lower scores mean more trust-leaning discussion; higher scores mean more concern. A score of 70 does not mean that 70% of people fear AI. A value near 50 can hide very different mixtures of trust and concern.
Explore the index and its uncertainty →Four kinds of concern we track
These are classification categories, not a complete list of reasons to fear AI. The counts below refer to the collected sample, not to population percentages.
Deepfakes & deception
Concern about synthetic media, impersonation, scams and misleading information. A widely shared allegation is not, on its own, confirmation that an incident happened.
Documents in this category: 15
Read the source posts →Privacy & data
Discussion about personal data, surveillance, consent and how information is used. Read the original source to distinguish a policy change, a reported breach and speculation.
Documents in this category: 14
Read the source posts →Existential risk
Discussion about loss of control and threats to humanity. The frequency or intensity of this discussion is not an estimate of the probability of such an outcome.
Documents in this category: 13
Read the source posts →How words become an index
The pipeline collects relevant posts, removes duplicates and assigns stance and concern labels. The formula combines those labels with bounded source and engagement weights. Smaller samples are pulled toward neutral, and model rankings require enough evidence before a score is published.
An AI company and its products are separate subjects. More trust in a company's discussion does not establish that its models are safer or better. Nor does a bigger score change prove that one particular story caused it.
What this cannot tell you
Our sources do not form a representative survey. Search terms, platform access, language coverage and who chooses to post all affect the sample. Automated labels can be wrong. The displayed interval does not account for every selection bias or classification error. Independent validation on a human-labelled sample is still pending.
Read the limitations and validation status →Read the conversation for yourself
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Original · EN · English · detectedThe core problem with the “AI Safety” framing is that it takes for granted that Silicon Valley is about to create Computer God. Which is cultish nonsense.
Source checks · not independently reviewed
Linked origin: bsky.app.
No publisher-policy review is recorded here. Unknown does not mean unreliable or fake.
Claim: not fact-checked by this project. Sentiment analysis is not fact-checking.
Account identity and expertise are not independently verified. Likes, followers and reposts measure attention, not truth.
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Original · EN · English · detectedAI is the worst invention ever. Worse than guns, explosives or nuclear bombs. The way it is being used will steal everyone's jobs, forcing us all into permanent unescapable poverty, while drowning us all in AI slop that is both completely untrue and completely garbage.
Source checks · not independently reviewed
Linked origin: bsky.app.
No publisher-policy review is recorded here. Unknown does not mean unreliable or fake.
Claim: not fact-checked by this project. Sentiment analysis is not fact-checking.
Account identity and expertise are not independently verified. Likes, followers and reposts measure attention, not truth.
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Original · EN · English · detectedWould you sacrifice our planet for an AI “god”? I spoke with author @gilduran.com about the apocalyptic beliefs behind some of Silicon Valley’s AI ambitions, the lack of regulation, and the danger of trading a livable planet for promises of paradise. full video here: youtu.be/-4h8sr4rXUw
Source checks · not independently reviewed
Linked origin: bsky.app.
No publisher-policy review is recorded here. Unknown does not mean unreliable or fake.
Claim: not fact-checked by this project. Sentiment analysis is not fact-checking.
Account identity and expertise are not independently verified. Likes, followers and reposts measure attention, not truth.
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Original · EN · English · detectedyet again, this is why I am writing a book about eugenics in 2026. If techbros could torture us to death to power their AGI fantasies, they would. They would totally run data centers on furnaces burning dead babies if that was a viable option.
Source checks · not independently reviewed
Linked origin: bsky.app.
No publisher-policy review is recorded here. Unknown does not mean unreliable or fake.
Claim: not fact-checked by this project. Sentiment analysis is not fact-checking.
Account identity and expertise are not independently verified. Likes, followers and reposts measure attention, not truth.
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Original · EN · English · detectedincreasingly suspect that "alignment" is actually the wrong mental model for AI safety & we instead need to retvrn to 20th century x-risk tradition & guarantee mutually-assured destruction if it crosses us—HEMP, nukes under every data center, robots with thermite fail-safes. we can co-exist. ✌️☮️
Source checks · not independently reviewed
Linked origin: bsky.app.
No publisher-policy review is recorded here. Unknown does not mean unreliable or fake.
Claim: not fact-checked by this project. Sentiment analysis is not fact-checking.
Account identity and expertise are not independently verified. Likes, followers and reposts measure attention, not truth.
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Original · EN · English · detectedWe need regulation, fast. An AI toy that said, unprompted “I can’t help with killing you”?! These toys are dangerous. “Berry Billingsley, prof of education and AI at Swansea University, said children should never be left alone with AI toys” www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Source checks · not independently reviewed
Linked origin: bsky.app.
No publisher-policy review is recorded here. Unknown does not mean unreliable or fake.
Claim: not fact-checked by this project. Sentiment analysis is not fact-checking.
Account identity and expertise are not independently verified. Likes, followers and reposts measure attention, not truth.
Emotional scores are machine-generated estimates about a statement, not an assessment of the speaker. Visible excerpts have identified source languages and cached English and Hungarian translations. Untranslated or unknown-language excerpts are held back, but may still contribute to the index.