existential risk

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A risk which could destroy or permanently damage an entity; a risk to one's existence. countable,uncountable
    — In an industry that relies more than anything on the appearance of total control, total safety, these two crashes pose as close to an existential risk as you can get.
  2. A hypothetical future event which could cause human extinction or permanently and severely curtail humanity's potential. countable,specifically,uncountable
    — The scenario of humanity going extinct in the next century is a disjunctive event. It could happen as a result of any of the existential risks we already know about—or some other cause which none of us foresaw.

词形变化

existential risks plural x-risk alternative

词源

The "human extinction" sense was coined by philosopher and writer Nick Bostrom in 2002.
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