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Concerns about advanced AI
Which systems come up in discussions about losing control of AI? These charts compare that discussion, not the chance of a catastrophe.
The Doom Index combines how often existential concerns appear, how strongly fear is expressed, and how much comes from higher-reach accounts. Popularity does not establish expertise or make a claim true.
Highest score in the collected posts this week
Anthropic
Anthropic · 232 documents in 168h
9.2
Doom Index / 100
10h 57m to midnight
on the Doom Clock
It leads chiefly on existential-risk talk — not because anything about it is more dangerous, but because that is what the corpus contains. The breakdown below shows every entity's three terms separately.
All tracked models and companies
Same time window as the chart above. A Doom score requires at least 80 qualifying documents. Missing scores are not zero risk; this measures discussion, not actual danger.
Models
Companies & labs
Ranked by how much the internet fears them
Doom Index over 168h. Measures existential-risk discourse, not risk. · Higher means more doom talk
Why each one is where it is
The Doom Index is three measurements added together. These are their contributions in index points. · Segments sum to that entity's score
- Existential share (×0.55)
- Fear intensity (×0.25)
- Higher-reach voices (×0.2)
What would move this ranking
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