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feat: add doomer term #35

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Expand Up @@ -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,
Expand All @@ -205,6 +222,7 @@ const inputTerms: InputTerm[] = [
skill,
mcp,
loop_engineering,
doomer,
];

const outputTerms: OutputTerm[] = [];
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