Monomania

/mˌɒnəʊmˈeɪniə/

/mˌɑːnoʊmˈeɪniə/

Monomania

an excessive and unhealthy obsession with a singular subject or idea to an extent that it becomes overwhelming and harmful

synonyms : possession

Examples

1. It's certainly not the monomania that I object to.

2. An artificial intelligence might be prone to monomania that way but even if it is, it is still likely to be able to understand concepts like public relations.

3. And I think there's been a way in which sometimes people in the environmental advocacy community have had a kind of monomania, to say, well, don't bother us.

4. An end-goal like that can also result in weird behaviors or decisions, what in a human we might call monomania, like it decides to minimize how many crimes happen in its district, which it estimates to be 1000 a year, but by killing everyone in the district, all million of them.