technologist
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Origin of technologist
First recorded in 1855–60; technolog(y) + -ist
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Recent want ads show Amazon MGM Studios trying to find a principal AI executive and Walt Disney Studios advertising for a production innovation technologist job.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 26, 2026
The CEO is a tremendous technologist, and is increasing the pace of new-product development to bring more AI solutions into the installed hardware base.
From Barron's ● Jun. 11, 2026
She routinely refers to herself as a technologist.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 8, 2026
These include invisible watermarks embedded directly into images and cryptographic signatures linked to the technologist at the time of image capture, which can help verify authenticity.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 26, 2026
She thought about becoming a dental assistant, but was leaning toward radiation technologist so she could study cancer and help patients who were getting radiation treatment like her mother.
From "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot
"Working with technologists, workers and unions can help steer the UK's research and innovation towards workers' priorities for automation... avoiding job-cutting, low-productivity automation," the TUC said in its report.
From BBC ● Jul. 29, 2026
DeepMind — established in 2010 by Hassabis and fellow technologists Shane Legg and Mustafa Suleyman — became the first modern artificial-general-intelligence lab, and its 2014 acquisition by Google famously galvanized the creation of OpenAI.
From MarketWatch ● May 23, 2026
We believe that technologists should design systems that admit uncertainty and need to educate users about how to interpret AI outputs responsibly.
From Salon ● May 12, 2026
Neither technologists nor Luddites, these leaders share a taste for challenging the status quo and a resolute determination to fix something that matters—and are willing to learn whatever is necessary to do it.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 8, 2026
According to some estimates, almost half the scientists and high technologists on Earth are employed full- or part-time on military matters.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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