techno-optimist en · NOUN
Meanings
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Someone characterized by techno-optimism.
[Sam] Altman, the techno-optimist bent on commercialization, lost out to [Ilya] Sutskever, the Brutus cum mad scientist fearful that super-smart AI poses an existential risk to humanity.
2023 November 22, Derek Thompson, “The OpenAI Mess Is About One Big Thing”, in The Atlantic:Near-synonyms: cyberoptimist, boomer
А camp of techno-optimists rebuffs A.I. doomerism with old-fashioned libertarian boomerism, insisting that all the hand-wringing about existential risk is a kind of mass hysteria.
2024 March 18, Andrew Marantz, “О.К., Doomer”, in The New Yorker, page 42:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| techno-optimists | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Antonyms
Coordinates
technophile · cyberutopian · techno-utopian