doomsday machine

noun

in stories
: a machine that will destroy the world

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Building Bostrom’s panopticon to prevent the creation of a doomsday machine would be equivalent to committing suicide for fear of being murdered. Niall Ferguson, Foreign Affairs, 18 May 2021 Their struggle for dominance in cyberspace would create a doomsday machine. IEEE Spectrum, 23 May 2023

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“Doomsday machine.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/doomsday%20machine. Accessed 21 Dec. 2024.

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