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TESCREAL

Computer scientist Timnit Gebru and philosopher Émile P. Torres coined the acronym "TESCREAL" in 2023.

TESCREAL is an acronym neologism, proposed and advocated by computer scientist Timnit Gebru and philosopher Émile P. Torres, standing for transhumanism, extropianism, singularitarianism, cosmism, rationalism, effective altruism, and longtermism.[1] Gebru and Torres argue that these ideologies should be treated as an "interconnected and overlapping" group with shared origins.[1] Gebru and Torres allege this is a right-wing[2]: 1  movement which allows its proponents to use the threat of human extinction to justify societally expensive or detrimental projects. They consider it pervasive in social and academic circles in Silicon Valley centered around artificial intelligence.[3] As such, the acronym is sometimes used to criticize a perceived belief system associated with Big Tech.[4][3][5][6]

  1. ^ a b Gebru, Timnit; Torres, Émile P. (April 14, 2024). "The TESCREAL bundle: Eugenics and the promise of utopia through artificial general intelligence". First Monday. 29 (4). doi:10.5210/fm.v29i4.13636. ISSN 1396-0466. Archived from the original on July 1, 2024. Retrieved June 27, 2024.
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  3. ^ a b Torres, Émile P (June 15, 2023). "The Acronym Behind Our Wildest AI Dreams and Nightmares". TruthDig. Retrieved October 1, 2023.
  4. ^ Troy, Dave (May 1, 2023). "The Wide Angle: Understanding TESCREAL — the Weird Ideologies Behind Silicon Valley's Rightward Turn". The Washington Spectator. Archived from the original on June 6, 2023. Retrieved October 1, 2023.
  5. ^ Ahuja, Anjana (May 10, 2023). "We need to examine the beliefs of today's tech luminaries". Financial Times. Archived from the original on December 11, 2023. Retrieved October 1, 2023.
  6. ^ Russell, Melia; Black, Julia (April 27, 2023). "He's played chess with Peter Thiel, sparred with Elon Musk and once, supposedly, stopped a plane crash: Inside Sam Altman's world, where truth is stranger than fiction". Business Insider. Archived from the original on October 11, 2023. Retrieved October 1, 2023.
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