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existential risk: a standalone construct

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Ethics

a risk that threatens the premature extinction of humanity or the permanent and drastic loss of its potential.

In ethics, existential risk refers to a risk that threatens the premature extinction of humanity or the permanent and drastic loss of its potential. This meaning comes from Bostrom (2013) in Global Policy.[1]

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extinction4 fields · 5 citationsjingle · one word, four constructs loss2 fields · 3 citationsjingle · one word, two constructs policy2 fields · 4 citationsjingle · one word, two constructs

References

Bostrom, N. (2013). Existential Risk Prevention as Global Priority. Global Policy, 4(1), 15-31. https://doi.org/10.1111/1758-5899.12002

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