Meaning of x-risk | Babel Free

Definitions

Initialism of existential risk.

abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable

Examples

“Suppose⟳ also that you think⟳ AI is the most pressing x-risk, because (1) mitigating AI risk⟳ could mitigate all other existential risks, but not vice-versa, and because (2) AI is plausibly the first existential risk⟳ that will occur⟳.”

“There are a number⟳ of potential candidates for most threatening X-risk. Personally I worry⟳ most about global pandemics, both because things like⟳ the Black Death and the Spanish flu have⟳ caused massive death before, and because globalization and the dawn of synthetic biology have⟳ made diseases both easier to spread⟳ and easier to tweak (intentionally or not) for maximum lethality. But I'm in the minority on that. The only X-risk basically anyone wanted to talk⟳ about at the conference was artificial intelligence.”

CEFR level