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existential risk

event that could cause human extinction or permanently and drastically curtail humanity's potential
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Summary

existential risk is known by 4 alternative names across languages and contexts.[1]

Key Facts

  • Subclass of: hypothetical event[2], extreme risk[3], safety risk[4], global catastrophic risk[5]
  • Said to be the same as: global catastrophic risk[6]

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  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  3. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_existential-risk_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{existential risk}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/existential-risk}, note = {Accessed: 2026-10-11}}
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  1. 10h ago · Zhenqinli · 2026-10-11 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Said to be the same as → global catastrophic risk
    Subclass of → hypothetical event, extreme risk, safety risk +1
    Wikipedia title → Existential risk
    Quora topic id → Existential-Risks
    + 7 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
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