civilization
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If tech bros are saying that AI might someday break containment and take down civilization, that sounds like an accountability sink coupled with an investor pitch.
From Salon ● Sep. 16, 2026
“How do you conquer a civilization and a people?”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2026
They were spurred by a departing Anthropic researcher’s dire warning in The Wall Street Journal on Tuesday that rogue AI systems could destroy civilization.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 12, 2026
WASHINGTON—A groundswell of urgency over artificial intelligence is surging in Congress amid growing fears that the technology could destroy civilization.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026
He was a thing of the wild, come in from the wild to sit by John Thornton’s fire, rather than a dog of the soft Southland stamped with the marks of generations of civilization.
From "The Call of the Wild" by Jack London
The rise and fall of AI agent civilizations.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 31, 2026
For their argument, Schwitzgebel and Pober estimate that at least 1,000 behaviorally sophisticated extraterrestrial civilizations have existed somewhere in the universe.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 24, 2026
From this universal human experience, civilizations arise and cultures are born.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 15, 2026
In ancient civilizations as in ours, it was status made manifest.
From Slate ● Jun. 11, 2026
Even nearby civilizations could spend millions of years in such separate or joint colonial ventures without ever stumbling upon our obscure solar system.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
Vocabulary lists containing civilization
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