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名詞

techno-optimist (plural techno-optimists)

1. Someone characterized by techno-optimism.

   Antonyms: technophobe, cyberphobe

   Coordinate terms: techno-utopian, technophile, cyberutopian

   Near-synonyms: cyberoptimist, boomer

   • 2023 November 22, Derek Thompson, “The OpenAI Mess Is About One Big Thing”, in The Atlantic‎:

     [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.

   • 2024 March 18, Andrew Marantz, “О.К., Doomer”, in The New Yorker, page 42:

     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.