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-synonyms: cyberoptimist, boomer
    • 2023 November 22, Derek Thompson, “The OpenAI Mess Is About One Big Thing”, in Jeffrey Goldberg, editor, The Atlantic‎[1], Washington, D.C.: The Atlantic Monthly Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 3 February 2026:
      [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, New York, N.Y.: Condé Nast Publications, →ISSN, →OCLC, 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.
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