Merriam-Webster’s new words say a lot about our AI doomsday fears

Merriam-Webster just officially recognized 1,400 new words, and they bring the lexicon of the AI era into the dictionary. On average, Merriam-Webster adds about 1,000 new entries every year, usually in large batches. Its editors are constantly reading widely to identify emerging words, and then searching through databases to determine whether those words are being used frequently, meaningfully, and widely. According to the company’s blog post on the topic, a word gets into a dictionary wh...