I’ve always taken “existential” risk to cover more than just extinction. Bostrom defines it as something like permanent destruction of human potential. So, a scenario where you have a population of living humans but only in a zoo is “existential” but not “extinction.”
I’ve always taken “existential” risk to cover more than just extinction. Bostrom defines it as something like permanent destruction of human potential. So, a scenario where you have a population of living humans but only in a zoo is “existential” but not “extinction.”