🧩 BND Motif Index · M962
Unprecedented Times
Everything is changing so fast it's hard to keep up and causing anxiety and instability.
🪨 Beliefs🗂️ Time motifs🗂️ AI related
- 3claims filed under it
- 1left show it came up on
- 2center shows it came up on
- 2right shows it came up on
⚠️ A story people tell, not a claim that it's true.
A motif is the shape of a story as its tellers tell it, named the way a folklorist names a tale type, so the same story told about other people, by the other side or in another year lands in the same place. Some of the claims below are true, many are false. Arguing against a story is often a story of its own, its answer (Voter fraud is answered by Voter suppression, Lawfare by No one is above the law), and we file it there; where no answer has a motif yet, the arguments against a story sit with its tellings.
🎙️ Who it came up with
the shows we follow where its claims came up (1 left-leaning, 2 center, 2 right-leaning so far), colored by the show's lean; the bar is how many of its claims each one heard
- left-leaning
- center
- right-leaning
"Came up on" means one of its claims was heard on the show: told, reported or argued against. We don't yet mark which. Show leans are our own grouping of the shows we transcribe.
🗣️ In so many words
the words that carry it
💬 the tellers' own words: “All the AI and tech and stuff... is going to change things very rapidly.” “I can't imagine why people are apprehensive about AI” “it's more urgent today than five years ago, than 10 years ago, than 20 years ago” “Our society is not advanced enough to deal with something like AI” “the world feels more dangerous and more volatile than I can ever remember” “we're also in a time of tremendous change, instability”
🧶 Its claims
what's been told in this shape, in our words, by who told it: newest first in each; a claim's dots are the shows it came up on, in their lean's color (point at them for their names)
Told on the left 0
claims heard on left-leaning shows, and no right-leaning one
🦗 No claim heard only on the left so far.
Told on the right 1
claims heard on right-leaning shows, and no left-leaning one
- 2026-10-17 “Rapid technological changes like AI are causing widespread anxiety and instability.” 1
Told on both sides 1
claims heard on left- and right-leaning shows alike
- 2026-11-11 “AI is being dropped into a society that has not culturally adapted to its hyper-advanced capabilities.” 2
Told in the center 1
claims heard only on center or crossover shows
- 2026-10-19 “The world is more dangerous and volatile than ever before.” 2
M962 · first seen 2026-10-19 · last 2026-11-11 · what this is · how the index works