The instrument room · everything behind the reading
The home page gives the reading. This page shows the working: where the score sits, how it has moved, which sources reported, what each pillar is doing, and how to take the number with you.
24 of 500 stories in the newsroom's current window matched the harm list and 5 matched the benefit list, as of 05:24 UTC on Thu 15 Oct 2026. A count of words, not of outcomes.
Benefit registerThe utopia case
Strongest evidence first on each side. A status word describes the evidence, not the importance.
How does SIREN count AI harm and benefit side by side? → 18 benefit and 18 harm rows checked by hand as of 2026-09-28, 6 live counters. None of it is summed.
Observed position · the mark moves both ways · not a prediction
Five stages, coolest on the left, lit at the one the index is in as of . Hotter means more is happening — not that anything is worse. The stages are the SIREN levels themselves, not a second scale that could disagree with the first.
Pin at 56.6 · dashed mark is the previous observation, 56.1 at 2026-10-15 03:34:40 UTC +0.5
This stage holds while the composite sits between 32.0 and 58.0 — the 35–54 band widened by the ±3-point deadband at each edge.
No stage change in the record. SIREN 4 has been the reading for 21d, since 2026-09-23 20:04:22 UTC, across 610 scored observations.
The published gates, as numbers. Each row is a requirement beside the current reading; nothing here says any of them is met. Heating is measured over 3h and 30m; standing down over 12h and 3h — cooling is deliberately the slower move, so a stage this index raises is one it keeps for a while.
Last run the score crossed a band edge but not the deadband around it.
rule_fired: deadband
Activity tempo, not probability of harm. Thresholds read from receipt
2026-10-15T05-21-57Z.
How the SIREN AI activity index is computed · methodology →
610 scored observations. The y axis is fixed at 0–100 and never auto-scaled to the data, so the question this chart answers stays "where in the range", not "what shape is the noise".
Every point on this line is written to a hash-chained receipt carrying its full inputs. What is the history of AI risk? →
Where today sits inside the frozen reference distribution, and why that curve is never updated live, is drawn and explained on the How the SIREN AI activity index is computed · methodology →
4 live, 1 stale, 10 awaiting a baseline, of 15 sources. A source awaiting a baseline answered fine; there is simply no frozen reference to score it against yet, so it is published and not counted.
●5 live◐1 stale◇10 awaiting baselineSources awaiting a baseline answered fine and are published, but there is no frozen reference to score them against yet.
Which part of the field is loudest today. Each bar is linear in score from 0 to 100, so the ordering is the comparison; the cards underneath carry each pillar's own history.
What shipped, and what got written down.
1/4 SCORED · 3 AWAITING BASELINE · 94TH PCTL
Silicon, spend, and the market’s opinion of both.
1/3 SCORED · 2 AWAITING BASELINE · 37TH PCTL
How loudly the world is talking.
2/3 SCORED · 1 AWAITING BASELINE · 43TH PCTL
Paperwork with the force of law.
1/2 SCORED · 1 AWAITING BASELINE · 64TH PCTL
Where money is posted against an opinion.
AWAITING BASELINE · 22 of 300 days
One iframe. No script, no tracking, no key. It renders light or dark to match the page it sits in, and the number inside it is server-rendered too.
Or a badge, for a README or anywhere an iframe is stripped. It shows the current level and links back here.
Add ?theme=light, ?theme=dark or ?compact=1 to pin the look.
How do I export and embed SIREN data? →
https://siren.watch/api/state.json current level, score, pillars and per-source healthhttps://siren.watch/api/history.json every scored observationhttps://siren.watch/api/health.json per-source success, honestly reportedhttps://siren.watch/api/receipts/<id>.json the hash-chained receipt behind one observationStatic files. No key, no rate limit, CC BY 4.0. Attribution: siren.watch.
The home page gives the reading. This page shows the working: where the score sits, how it has moved, which sources reported, what each pillar is doing, and how to take the number with you.
Harm and benefit are counted side by side and never summed. Strongest evidence first on each side; a status word describes the evidence, not the importance.
Five stages, coolest on the left, lit at the one the index is in. Hotter means more is happening — not that anything is worse. The stages are the SIREN levels themselves, not a second scale that could disagree with the first.
This page charts every scored observation over time. The history of AI risk page and the methodology page explain the frozen reference curve that never updates live.
4 live, 1 stale, 10 awaiting a baseline, of 15 sources. A source awaiting a baseline answered fine; there is simply no frozen reference to score it against yet, so it is published and not counted.
Which part of the field is loudest today. Each bar is linear in score from 0 to 100, so the ordering is the comparison; the cards underneath carry each pillar's own history.
Recent scored moves are listed on this page, with the full archive at Where are the SIREN index moves?
Where today sits inside the frozen reference distribution, and why that curve is never updated live, is drawn and explained on the methodology page.
One iframe. No script, no tracking, no key. It renders light or dark to match the page it sits in, and the number inside it is server-rendered too.
Static JSON under /api/: state, history, health and per-reading receipts. No key, no rate limit, CC BY 4.0. Attribution: siren.watch.
What shipped, and what got written down.
Silicon, spend, and the market’s opinion of both.
How loudly the world is talking.
Paperwork with the force of law.
Where money is posted against an opinion.
The published heating gates, as numbers beside the current reading. Nothing here says any of them is met.
The published cooling gates, as numbers beside the current reading. Cooling is deliberately the slower move.
Search-shaped sibling: How the SIREN AI activity index is computed · methodology.
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