frankenstein complex
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.32 in modern English
39
Scrabble Score
19
Letters
4
Syllables
15
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The fear that an artificial intelligence will turn against humans.
Example Sentences
- "I'll admit that this Frankenstein Complex you're exhibiting has a certain justification—hence the First Law in the first place."
- "Mr. Graf, you're still disturbed. You sure you're not harboring just a little of the old Frankenstein complex about all this? It's all right to admit it to me—in fact, I want you to talk about it."
- "The central character of Mary Shelley's novel by the same name 'Frankenstein' is used as an adjective in a variety of biomedical contexts, eg Frankenstein complex The fear that machines via artificial intelligence may replace physicians"
- "No wonder Gibson introduces the Turing Registry agents in Neuromancer, representatives of cyberpunk's own apparent Frankenstein Complex: “For thousands of years men dreamed of pacts with demons. Only now are such things possible.[…]”"
Etymology
Coined by American science fiction author Isaac Asimov in 1947 in his novelette Little Lost Robot. From Victor Frankenstein, the title character of Mary Shelley's novel Frankenstein (1818).