Philosophies & Movements
Roko's Basilisk
A thought experiment suggesting that a hypothetical future superintelligent AI might have an incentive to punish people who knew of its potential existence but did not help create it — including people alive today who fail to contribute to its development.
Origin
Posted to LessWrong in 2010 by user Roko; the post was deleted by site administrator Eliezer Yudkowsky (profiled on our Who's Who page), who argued that publicly spreading the idea could be dangerous. It has since become a widely referenced — and widely mocked — example of extreme AI-safety reasoning.