Slang & Culture
AI Overlord(s)
A tongue-in-cheek phrase for a hypothetical future where AI systems dominate humans, almost always used ironically ("welcoming our new AI overlords") rather than as a literal prediction.
Origin · no single documented coiner
No single documented coiner. Echoes the catchphrase pattern "I, for one, welcome our new [X] overlords," popularized by a 1994 episode of "The Simpsons," later applied broadly to AI as the technology advanced.