techno-optimist

English

Noun

techno-optimist (plural techno-optimists)

  1. Someone characterized by techno-optimism.
    Antonyms: technophobe, cyberphobe
    Coordinate terms: techno-utopian, technophile, cyberutopian
    Near-synonym: cyberoptimist
    • 2023 November 22, Derek Thompson, “The OpenAI Mess Is About One Big Thing”, in The Atlantic‎[1]:
      Altman, the techno-optimist bent on commercialization, lost out to Sutskever, the Brutus cum mad scientist fearful that super-smart AI poses an existential risk to humanity.
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