diff --git a/lib/terms.ts b/lib/terms.ts index 55c544a..050ab55 100644 --- a/lib/terms.ts +++ b/lib/terms.ts @@ -195,6 +195,23 @@ const loop_engineering: InputTerm = { }, }; +const doomer: InputTerm = { + name: "Doomer", + related_terms: ["ai doomer", "ai doomerism", "ai doomsayers"], + general: { + type: "Group of People", + definition: + "A group of people who believe AI can cause the extinction of humans.", + example: ` Along with other AI doomers, they have repeatedly warned, with rather dramatic flourish, that bots could one day go rogue—with apocalyptic consequences (Wong, The Atlantic, 2025).`, + }, + software: { + type: "Group of People", + definition: + " A group of people who believe that, especially with the advent of recursive AI, agents can escape their harness and cause human extinction.", + example: `The “doomer” outcomes rely on a specific set of circumstances, including recursive self-improvement, a term for when tech companies use AI to automate the development of newer models (Kubinec, The Dispatch, 2026).`, + }, +}; + const inputTerms: InputTerm[] = [ agent, agi, @@ -205,6 +222,7 @@ const inputTerms: InputTerm[] = [ skill, mcp, loop_engineering, + doomer, ]; const outputTerms: OutputTerm[] = [];