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apocalypse

[uh-pok-uh-lips] / əˈpɒk ə lɪps /


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They discuss the exponential pace of AI development, what the big companies are or are not doing to protect humans from apocalypse, and the simultaneous governmental and industry cooperation that could help manage risks.

From Slate Sep. 10, 2026

"It's like the zombie apocalypse sometimes and you can see they are completely away with it," he says.

From BBC Aug. 17, 2026

These odd phenomena convinced ancient cultures that eclipses were signs of the apocalypse -- or messages from the gods.

From Barron's Aug. 11, 2026

This is someone who recently wrote a paper categorizing the ways AI might kill everyone, applying a mathematician’s instinct for order to the apocalypse.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 1, 2026

Against the tangerine blush of the afternoon sun, it looked like the apocalypse had already touched down in Virginia.

From "The Darkest Minds" by Alexandra Bracken

The game has no guns, no Marios, no apocalypses.

From Seattle Times Jul. 13, 2023

Burns and his co-showrunner, Dorothy Fortenberry, argue that film and TV have their own version of the same problem: Climate apocalypses create immediate drama and character-level tension.

From Washington Post Mar. 17, 2023

And apocalypses tend to force children to grow up faster, rather than slower.

From Salon Feb. 10, 2023

And when those apocalypses recur, new beginnings may suggest themselves.

From New York Times Nov. 10, 2022

If he had been only an enthusiast, led away by the apocalypses on which the popular imagination fed, he would have remained an obscure sectary, inferior to those whose ideas he followed.

From The Life of Jesus by Ernest Renan




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