English Explanatory Dictionary

Frankenstein complex

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The fear that an artificial intelligence will turn against humans.

Word forms

Frankenstein complex Frankenstein complexes

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).

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