Glossary · term

AI doomerism / Decel

A pejorative term used by e/acc to describe the safety-focused community (Hinton, Bengio, Russell, Anthropic). "Decel" = decelerationist. Despite being intended as an insult, part of the safety community has adopted it with pride. It shows that AI discourse in 2024-25 became ideological, not just technical.

Debate2023Wave 1 · 2023Maturity: 2/5

Maturity rationale

buzzword / early stage

References

Wikipedia: AI doomer(wiki)

Author: Geoffrey Hinton

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