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“AI discourse analyzed (we looked at essays, Twitter, Bluesky, Truth Social)” by Matt Brooks, Nicholas Kees Dupuis

“AI discourse analyzed (we looked at essays, Twitter, Bluesky, Truth Social)” by Matt Brooks, Nicholas Kees Dupuis

Update: 2025-11-26
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AI In Group Discourse

I wanted to programmatically analyze the AI in-group ecosystem and discourse using AI as an exploration in sensemaking during my time in the “AI for Human Reasoning” FLF fellowship.

I also analyzed the EA Forum itself in an earlier fellowship sensemaking MVP.

Sidenote: I’m very interested in the potential for “AI uplift” to increase the impact of EA-aligned orgs by removing bottlenecks, automating flows, processing unstructured data, etc. I’ve founded a successful B2B SaaS company in the past and am now looking to pivot to high impact work using my skills. If you have ideas, questions, or may need some consulting / contracting work, please DM me.

This first thing I I needed to do was find the high authority network of people talking about AI to find the relevant information and sources they posted / shared.

I started with a hand picked seed of ~50 twitter accounts I considered firmly focused on high quality AI discourse and then used twitter following data to create an ever expanding following / authority / page-rank graph.

I also used AI to analyze the past 1000 tweets for each account to score how relevant their profile was to [...]

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Outline:

(00:14 ) AI In Group Discourse

(02:39 ) en-US-AvaMultilingualNeural__ Leaderboard showing Top 41 AI Organizations - Authority Leaderboard with rankings and scores.

(03:10 ) Worldview Clusters

(08:35 ) en-US-AvaMultilingualNeural__ Chat interface discussing AI existential risk with doom scenario framing.

(09:07 ) Popular domains

(11:12 ) AI Trajectory Analysis

(17:32 ) Bluesky vs Truth Social

(18:02 ) Pipeline

(19:44 ) Results

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First published:

November 26th, 2025



Source:

https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/JxiEyRtaApvqAZ2cQ/ai-discourse-analyzed-we-looked-at-essays-twitter-bluesky


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Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.


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Images from the article:

Modal window showing AI trend analysis with description, direction, and evidence sections.
Leaderboard table showing top AI authorities with rankings, organizations, authority scores, and summaries.
Dashboard showing
Collage of numerous circular profile pictures arranged in a pattern.
Diagram showing raw posts clustered and labeled for spam and porn detection.
Bar graph showing
Chat interface discussing AI existential risk with doom scenario framing.
Dashboard showing AI trajectory driver spectrum with technological drivers categorized by impact levels across documents.
Flowchart showing social media posts from Bluesky and Truth Social forming claims and bipartisan clusters leading to points of agreement and disagreement.
Modal window displaying algorithmic innovations and breakthroughs, showing areas of agreement and disagreement among documents.
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“AI discourse analyzed (we looked at essays, Twitter, Bluesky, Truth Social)” by Matt Brooks, Nicholas Kees Dupuis

“AI discourse analyzed (we looked at essays, Twitter, Bluesky, Truth Social)” by Matt Brooks, Nicholas Kees Dupuis