---
aliases:
  en:
  - existential risks
  - x-risk
  - x risk
  ja:
  - 実存的リスク
  - 存亡的リスク
concept_id: existential_risk
preferred:
  en: existential risk
  ja: 存亡リスク
relations:
  relations:
    broader:
    - catastrophic_risk
    prerequisite:
    - catastrophic_risk
status: active
---

# existential risk

A risk of an outcome that would cause human extinction or permanently and drastically curtail humanity's long-run potential; it is an especially severe class of catastrophic risk.

## broader

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

## prerequisite

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

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