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[doomz-day] / ˈdumzˌdeɪ /




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Employees there trade doomsday scenarios and how to prepare for them on a private Slack channel, and have come to embrace a motto they stick on their laptops: “Things will never be chill again.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 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

By March 14, 2008, they had sold short the stocks of virtually every financial firm in any way connected to the doomsday machine.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis


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