TESCREAL - Wikipedia

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TESCREAL is an acronym neologism proposed by computer scientist Timnit Gebru and philosopher Émile P. Torres that stands for "transhumanism, extropianism, singularitarianism, cosmism, rationalism, effective altruism, and longtermism".[ 1] [ 2] Gebru and Torres argue that these ideologies should be treated as an "interconnected and overlapping" group with shared origins.[ 1] They say this is a movement that allows its proponents to use the threat of human extinction to justify expensive or detrimental projects and 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.[ 3] [ 4] [ 5]

Gebru and Torres coined "TESCREAL" in 2023, first using it in a draft of a paper titled "The TESCREAL bundle: Eugenics and the promise of utopia through artificial general intelligence".[ 1] [ 4] First Monday published the paper in April 2024, though Torres and Gebru popularized the term elsewhere[ 6] before the paper's publication. According to Gebru and Torres, transhumanism, extropianism, singularitarianism, (modern) cosmism, rationalism, effective altruism, and longtermism are a "bundle" of "interconnected and overlapping ideologies" that emerged from 20th-century eugenics, with shared progenitors.[ 1] They use the term "TESCREAList" to refer to people who subscribe to, or appear to endorse, most or all of the ideologies captured in the acronym.[ 1] [ 3]

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