enfeeblement
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Some researchers worried about AI safety also cite enfeeblement as a risk, a “WALL-E” future in which humans gradually cede control to machines and eventually become unable to define, or even understand, our destiny.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026
“Overstretch — the enfeeblement that comes with confusing ends and means — allows enemies to apply leverage: small maneuvers that have big consequences.”
From Washington Post ● Apr. 27, 2018
“In their youth, mortals behave more like nymphs. Adulthood seems impossibly distant, let alone the enfeeblement of old age. But ponderously, inevitably, it overtakes you. I find it a frustrating, humbling, infuriating experience.”
From "Fablehaven" by Brandon Mull
There has been a great extension of what we call education in the past hundred years, but while we have spread education widely, there has been a sort of shrinkage and enfeeblement of its aims.
From The Salvaging Of Civilisation by H. G.
Dementia, de-men′shi-a, n. general mental enfeeblement, with loss of memory, reason, feeling, and will: often the consequence of acute mania.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various
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