A paper clip is a paper fastener. Paper clip may also refer to: "Paper Clip", an episode of The X-Files Paper Clips Project, a monument honoring the Holocaust victims Paper Clips (film), a 2004 documentary about the project PaperClip, a 1980s word processor for the Commodore 64 and Atari 8-bit family Microsoft Paperclip, the default Microsoft Office Assistant Operation Paperclip, codename for the U.S. intelligence plan to extract scientists from Germany during World War II See also One red paperclip, trading experiment Paperclip maximizer, Nick Bostrom's thought experiment about existential risk of artificial intelligence Universal Paperclips, a 2017 incremental game using the concept of the paperclip maximizer