existential risk

Language: en

📖 Definitions

  1. A risk that threatens the continued existence or survival of humanity, civilization, or the planet as a whole.; A danger that could lead to the collapse, destruction, or fundamental failure of a specific organization, state, or system.

💬 Examples

  1. Many experts argue that unregulated artificial intelligence development constitutes an existential risk to the future of mankind.

  2. The spokesperson emphasized that introducing nuclear weapons into Japan's defense strategy poses an existential risk to Russian national security.