---
aliases:
  en:
  - catastrophic risks
  ja:
  - 破局的リスク
  - 破滅的リスク
concept_id: catastrophic_risk
preferred:
  en: catastrophic risk
  ja: 壊滅的リスク
relations:
  relations:
    broader:
    - risk
    prerequisite:
    - risk
status: active
---

# catastrophic risk

A risk of an event or process causing extremely severe and large-scale harm, potentially across societies, generations, or critical systems; catastrophic risk is broader than existential risk because a catastrophe can be enormous without permanently destroying humanity's long-run potential.

## broader

- [risk](../terminology/risk.txt)

## prerequisite

- [risk](../terminology/risk.txt)

## Documents: mentions

- [「doom」を単一確率に畳まず、複数の重大なリスクを区別して見積もる](../documents/christiano.doom-is-serious-but-not-modal.txt)
- [強力なAIが人類から不可逆的に支配権を奪う展開には相当な可能性がある](../documents/christiano.high-ai-disempowerment-risk.txt)
- [アラインメントは最初の危険な試行で成功する必要がある](../documents/yudkowsky.first-critical-try.txt)

[Corpus index](../index.txt)