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doomer

noun \ˈdü-mər\

also AI doomer

TopicCulture & Big Ideas First known use2023 Senses1

Definition of doomer

  1. : (often dismissive) a person who believes advanced AI is likely to cause catastrophe and argues for slowing or stopping its development

    • He calls himself a realist; his critics call him a doomer.
    • The doomers and the accelerationists were on the same panel.

Two meanings, one word

In everyday English

A person who is very pessimistic about the future.

In AI

(often dismissive) a person who believes advanced AI is likely to cause catastrophe and argues for slowing or stopping its development.

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p(doom) (informal) a person's estimated probability that AI will lead to catastrophic outcomes for… existential risk the possibility that advanced AI could cause human extinction or permanently and drastically… accelerationism in tech culture, the view that AI and technology should be developed as fast as possible… anti-AI opposed to the development, adoption, or use of artificial intelligence, especially generative… AI pause a proposal to temporarily halt specified development or training of increasingly capable AI…

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