64 terms
Culture & Big Ideas
The slang, debates, and big-picture ideas that AI has added to everyday language.
- accelerationismnounin tech culture, the view that AI and technology should be developed as fast as possible, because faster progress brings more…
- AI bubblenountrendingthe debated claim that investment, spending, or market valuations associated with artificial intelligence have risen beyond the…
- AI capability funnelnountrendinga steep divide in how different groups perceive and use AI, ranging from billions of people with little exposure to a very small…
- AI companionnounan AI character or chatbot designed for ongoing personal conversation, friendship, or emotional support
- AI consciousnessnountrendingthe question of whether an AI system could have subjective experience, meaning that there is something it is like to be that…
- AI deskillingnountrendingthe weakening, narrowing, or failure to develop human skills when AI performs parts of a task that people previously practiced or…
- AI diffusionnountrendingthe spread, adoption, and practical integration of AI technologies across people, organizations, industries, regions, or everyday…
- AI exposurenounthe estimated degree to which the tasks in a job, occupation, industry, or economy could be affected by the capabilities of…
- AI fatiguenounmental, emotional, or motivational exhaustion and disengagement associated with sustained AI use, rapid changes in AI tools, or…
- AI fluencynounthe practical ability to work productively, critically, and responsibly with AI systems across changing tasks and tools
- AI for sciencenountrendingthe use of artificial intelligence across the scientific process to analyze research and data, build models, generate hypotheses…
- AI interviewernountrendingan AI system that conducts a job interview, asks or adapts questions, observes a candidate's answers or work, and produces…
- AI investingnountrendingthe use of artificial intelligence to analyze financial information, conduct investment research, identify opportunities…
- AI literacynounthe knowledge and skills needed to understand, use, and critically evaluate AI systems, including their capabilities, limits…
- AI oligopolynountrendinga market structure in which a small number of companies control a large share of important AI models, computing infrastructure…
- AI pausenountrendinga proposal to temporarily halt specified development or training of increasingly capable AI systems while safety measures…
- AI productivity paradoxnountrendingthe apparent mismatch between rapid improvement and widespread adoption of artificial intelligence and weak, delayed, or…
- AI psychosisnoun(informal) a term used in the media for cases in which people develop strong false beliefs after long, intense conversations with…
- AI readinessnounthe degree to which a government, city, organization, or other institution has the strategy, governance, skills, data…
- AI roleplaynouninteractive role-playing with an AI system that adopts a fictional, historical, or user-defined character or persona
- AI slopnountrendinglow-quality AI-generated content produced in bulk, such as spammy articles, strange images, and fake videos, that clutters feeds…
- AI tellnountrendinga word, phrase, or habit of style that suggests a piece of writing was produced by AI, because models use it far more often than…
- AI wage compressionnountrendinga narrowing of wage differences or a slowing of wage growth associated with AI adoption, for example when AI helps…
- AI winternouna period when interest, funding, and progress in AI fall sharply after expectations are not met
- AI-assistedadjectiveusing AI as a supporting tool while a human remains responsible for the work or decision, often contrasted with content generated…
- AI;DRinterjectiontrendingan online response meaning 'AI; didn't read,' used to say that someone skipped a message because it appeared to be unedited…
- ambient AInountrendingAI embedded in devices or surroundings that continuously or periodically senses context and remains ready to offer help without…
- anthropomorphismnounthe interpretation or presentation of an AI system as if it had humanlike understanding, intentions, emotions, identity, or…
- anti-AIadjective or nountrendingopposed to the development, adoption, or use of artificial intelligence, especially generative AI; also, a person, position, or…
- artificial general intelligencenountrendinga hypothetical AI that can understand, learn, and perform virtually any intellectual task a human can, at least as well as a human
- artificial superintelligencenounhypothetical AI that is far more capable than the best humans in nearly every field, including science, strategy, and social…
- bitter lessonnounthe observation that, over the long run, simple general methods that use more computation beat clever methods built on human…
- capability overhangnountrendinga gap between the abilities an AI model may already possess and the abilities that evaluations, prompts, tools, or users have so…
- Chief Data and AI Officernouna senior executive responsible for coordinating an organization's data strategy, data governance, analytics, and adoption and…
- circular financingnountrendingan arrangement within the AI industry in which interconnected companies finance, invest in, or guarantee one another while also…
- clankernoun(slang, mocking) a robot or AI system, used jokingly or to express frustration with AI
- cognitive debtnountrendingthe long-term cost to your own thinking skills that may build up when you hand writing, reasoning, or remembering over to AI…
- cognitive offloadingnountrendingthe transfer of remembering, planning, reasoning, writing, or other mental work from a person to an external tool, especially an…
- cuck codingnountrendinga vulgar and mocking name for a form of AI-assisted programming in which a person is portrayed as mostly watching an AI generate…
- digital humannountrendinga computer-generated humanlike character designed to look, move, speak, or interact like a person, often combining a rendered…
- doomernoun(often dismissive) a person who believes advanced AI is likely to cause catastrophe and argues for slowing or stopping its…
- generative AInountrendingAI that creates new content, such as text, images, music, video, or code, in response to a prompt, rather than only sorting or…
- generative monoculturenountrendingthe tendency of generative AI systems, or people relying on the same systems, to produce a narrower and more similar range of…
- glazingnountrending(slang) excessive, undeserved praise; often used to complain that a chatbot flatters the user instead of giving honest feedback
- griefbotnounan AI chatbot, synthetic voice, or digital avatar designed to imitate a person who has died by learning from that person's…
- GTM engineernouna job that uses AI agents, data tools, and automation to build repeatable systems for finding customers, researching them, and…
- jagged frontiernounthe uneven boundary of what AI can do well: it may handle a hard task brilliantly yet fail at one that seems much easier
- mathocalypsenountrendingan anticipated or perceived upheaval in mathematics caused by AI systems producing new proofs or solutions faster than human…
- meat proxynountrendinga disparaging term for a person who forwards AI-generated material without first reading, understanding, checking, or improving it
- mecha Goliathnountrendinga metaphor for a small company or team whose people use AI agents as a force multiplier, giving it enough execution capacity to…
- nerfverbtrendingto reduce, or appear to reduce, the capability, reasoning effort, reliability, or usefulness of an AI model after it has been…
- parasocialadjectivedescribing a one-sided relationship in which a person feels close to someone or something that does not know them in the same…
- personal superintelligencenountrendinga proposed form of highly capable AI that is adapted to one person, understands that person's context and goals, and helps the…
- pro-worker AInountrendingartificial intelligence designed or deployed to complement workers, strengthen their skills, and make human expertise more…
- proof abundancenountrendinga condition in which AI systems can produce mathematical proofs or credible proof attempts faster than people and institutions…
- shoggothnoun(meme) an image of a huge alien monster wearing a small smiley-face mask, used to suggest that a language model is a vast, poorly…
- singularitynouna hypothetical future point at which technological growth, driven by AI that improves itself, becomes so fast that the world…
- stochastic parrotnouna critical description of a language model as something that stitches together plausible text from statistical patterns without…
- super intelligencenountrending(US government usage) the official name, since 2026, that US federal agencies use for what is otherwise called artificial…
- synthetic performernountrendinga digitally created humanlike performer generated with AI that appears to act or present content but is not the recognizable…
- tokenmaxxingnountrendingthe practice of pushing employees to use as many AI tokens as possible, treating token spending as a measure of AI adoption or…
- Turing testnouna test of whether a machine can hold a text conversation so well that a person cannot reliably tell it apart from a human
- virtual influencernountrendinga computer-generated fictional persona that publishes social media content, interacts with an audience, and performs roles…
- workslopnountrendingAI-generated work, such as reports, memos, emails, or slides, that looks polished but lacks real substance, so the people who…
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