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doomsday

[doomz-day] / ˈdumzˌdeɪ /




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There were scientists in the Manhattan Project who feared what a journalist later called the doomsday hypothesis.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has described warnings that AI could lead to humanity's extinction by the next decade as "doomsday narratives".

From BBC ● Sep. 21, 2026

The vice president’s words sound good — like a rap on the knuckles of the tech billionaires who can’t stop claiming they’re building doomsday devices.

From Salon ● Sep. 20, 2026

“That 10% number is not based on research…there’s no scientific validity to that,” Bhadelia said of the Anthropic researcher’s doomsday prediction.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 19, 2026

She’s probably holed up in the house like it’s doomsday.

From "The Hate U Give" by Angie Thomas




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