pessimist
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Whether you are an A.I. optimist or pessimist, you’d ideally agree that few industries have ever screamed out more for intense scrutiny at a particular moment than generative A.I. does right now.
From Slate ● Apr. 7, 2026
A race-relations pessimist who invokes the ideas of other writers of that ilk—Ta-Nehisi Coates, for instance, and Isabel Wilkerson—he detects in America a “fatigue with the pursuit of equality and inclusion.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 2, 2026
A pessimist, however, would look and see the need for careful risk management.
From Barron's ● Oct. 23, 2025
“My advice is simple: Plan like a pessimist and travel like an optimist,” he said.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 8, 2025
I can’t seem to be a pessimist long enough to overlook the possibility of things being overwhelmingly good.
From "Where Things Come Back" by John Corey Whaley
Why do the optimists and pessimists see the same data—and come to such widely different conclusions?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 28, 2026
Six days later Kyle gave a speech at the Munich Security Conference in which he said "in the UK, we reject the doomsayers and the pessimists" about artificial intelligence.
From BBC ● Jun. 1, 2026
Technological pessimists speak as if modernity itself were a mistake.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 28, 2026
Breaking the buck isn’t a hypothetical risk dreamed up by pessimists with too much time and not enough sunlight.
From MarketWatch ● Dec. 5, 2025
Scientists can’t afford to be optimists or pessimists.
From "Crenshaw" by Katherine Applegate
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