X-risk

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Initialism of existential risk. abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable

    "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."

  2. 2
    Alternative form of x-risk. alt-of, alternative

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"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."

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