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A hypothetical future event which could cause human extinction or permanently and severely curtail humanity's potential.

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existential risk

Noun

countable uncountable

A hypothetical future event which could cause human extinction or permanently and severely curtail humanity's potential.

Japanese Meaning

人類絶滅や、人類の潜在能力を永久かつ著しく制限する可能性を持つ仮定上の将来の出来事

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Scientists warn that unchecked artificial intelligence development could pose an existential risk to humanity if safeguards are not implemented.

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科学者たちは、適切な安全対策が講じられなければ、制御されていない人工知能の発展が人類絶滅のリスクをもたらし得ると警告している。

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A hypothetical future event which could cause human extinction or permanently and severely curtail humanity's potential.

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.

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A risk which could destroy or permanently damage an entity; a risk to one's existence.

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.

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existential risks

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