What Does This Mean?

P(doom)

[ SLANG ][ AI ][ NOUN ]

FORCE: Machine CultureUNIVERSE: AI CultureCLUSTER: AI Safety Discourse

A person's stated subjective probability that AI will cause a catastrophic or extinction-level outcome for humanity, expressed as a number and treated as a genuine, if informal, way to compare how worried different people in AI circles actually are.

REAL-WORLD EXAMPLE

"His P(doom) is like 20%, mine's closer to 5%, we argue about it constantly."

LORE & ORIGIN

Coined in AI safety and research communities as shorthand for 'probability of doom,' letting people compare pessimism levels with a single number instead of a long qualitative explanation.

FIRST SEEN

2022

PEAK ERA (EDITORIAL)

2023-2026 (AI Safety Discourse Era)

CURRENT STATUS

Mainstream Slang

Related To:AI Habsburg Model Molt

Leer en español →Lire en français →日本語版を読む →한국어판 보기 →Ler em português →阅读中文版 →

EQUIVALENT CONCEPTS IN OTHER LANGUAGES

Español es-ESP(doom) →Français fr-FRP(doom) →日本語 ja-JP破滅確率 →한국어 ko-KR파멸 확률 →Português pt-BRP(doom) →中文 zh-CN灭绝概率 →

AURA IMPACT ⓘ

+5 AURA

TREND STATUS

→ STEADY

EDITORIAL ESTIMATE

CULTURE CATEGORY

[ SLANG ][ AI ][ NOUN ]

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MENTIONS OVER TIME

DOCUMENTED SINCE

2022

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