The AI Fear Index
A compact read on AI anxiety from five live signals — market movement, news attention, prediction markets, documented incidents and public attention — connected to job exposure and AI-stock data.
Today's strongest pressure is AI incidents: 100 incident reports in 30 days (baseline ≈ 60).
Recent trend
Last 7 points
Today's brief
Main pressure
AI incidents
100 incident reports in 30 days (baseline ≈ 60)
Change
-15 vs previous
Anxiety is lower than the last distinct daily snapshot.
Market read
-0.42%
AI stocks are not moving the index much today. Biggest sampled move: META -4.46%.
The headline score is a weighted average of available live signals: market movement, Hacker News AI attention, Manifold prediction markets, AI Incident Database report velocity and Wikipedia attention to AI-risk topics. Unavailable signals are excluded and the remaining weights are renormalized.
273 AI stories on HN in 48h · 5 with 100+ points
9 open AI-risk markets · avg implied P(risk) 39%
80k weekly views of AI-risk topics · +1% vs 5-week baseline
100 incident reports in 30 days (baseline ≈ 60)
Coming online — excluded from today's score
Live market feed offline — excluded from the composite
A 0–100 gauge of AI anxiety, updated daily from market, news and incident signals.
How it worksCheck your occupation's automation-risk score, a timeline, and how to stay ahead.
Check your jobDelayed prices for the chipmakers, hyperscalers and software names driving AI.
View AI stocksWhich sectors AI is disrupting, ranked by a data-driven workforce-exposure score.
See industriesThe winners and losers — firms disrupted by AI, adapting to it, or riding the boom.
See companiesEvery major cut where AI was cited — dated, sourced, 2023 to now.
Employment-weighted AI exposure for all 50 states, DC and Puerto Rico.
Six questions about what you actually do all day — shareable score.
850+ occupations on one scatter: exposure against BLS median pay.
Prices delayed. Not financial advice.