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Benevolent - Well-meaning and kind.
ChatGPT - An Artificial Intelligence chatbot released in November 2022.
Degenerate - Immoral and corrupt.
Carbon dioxide - Carbon dioxide is a colourless gas formed during the combustion of any material containing carbon and is a significant greenhouse gas.
Extinction - Completely dying out.
Extinct - A species that no longer has any living members.
Reductive - Dealing with or describing something complicated in a simple or too simple way.
Abrahamic religions - Judaism, Christianity and Islam are known as the Abrahamic religions because they all trace their roots back to the story of Abraham.
Empirical - Through observation or experience, rather than just theory.
Tenets - A principle or belief, especially one of the main principles of a religion or philosophy.
Scientific method - A method of procedure that has characterized natural science since the 17th century, consisting in systematic observation, measurement, and experiment.