Meanings
- humorousslanguncountableartificial intelligenceAI safety (to prevent artificial intelligence causing harms such as literal human extinction).
Lucius is an AI notkilleveryoneism researcher at Apollo, focused on interpretability.
2023 October 30, Mateusz Bagiński, “Charbel-Raphaël and Lucius discuss interpretability”, in AI Alignment Forum (forum post), archived from the original on 14 Jun 20245 more examples
ai notkilleveryonism Advantages • “well not saying swears is an important part of not killing everyone” no it’s not • “not killing everyone to who” everyone Disadvantages • scans horribly
[2022 September 9, @TetraspaceWest, Twitter (post), archived from the original on 27 Aug 2026"AI notkilleveryoneism", because everything short of that has been co-opted by monkeys who'd rather fight about which monkey gets the poison banana.
2023 May 6, @ESYudkowsky, Twitter (post), archived from the original on 27 Aug 2026On your last point, I do think it's important to note, and reflect carefully on, the extremely high overlap between those funding ai notkilleveryoneism and those funding capabilities development.
2024 February 1, jph00, “Building an early warning system for LLM-aided biological threat creation”, in Hacker News (post), archived from the original on 27 Jun 2026It is distinctly possible for large amounts of money to be appropriated to AI safety broadly, in a way which could include substantial AI notkilleveryoneism funding if our cards are played right.
2025 January 20, Peter Berggren, “Why We Need More Shovel-Ready AI Notkilleveryoneism Megaproject Proposals”, in LessWrong (post), archived from the original on 21 Jan 2025Eliezer Yudkowsky coined the term “AI Notkilleveryoneism” in an attempt to establish a name that could not be co-opted, but unsurprisingly it failed to catch on among those it was intended to describe.
[2025 January 31, Ben Landau-Taylor, “The Failed Strategy of Artificial Intelligence Doomers”, in Palladium, archived from the original on 27 Aug 2026
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AI notkilleveryoneism. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/AI%20notkilleveryoneism
“AI notkilleveryoneism.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/AI%20notkilleveryoneism. Accessed November 2, 2026.
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