existential
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While seeing AI models as powerful tools, he has compared them to the intelligence of a cat and sparred with researchers who fear that AI poses an existential risk to humanity.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 4, 2026
This second half of the term, there has been a pumping of the brakes on deciding big, existential questions over the shadow docket.
From Slate • Jun. 1, 2026
Wu told AFP that the development, long awaited in the industry, represents an "existential threat" to current laptop chip designs, with Intel and AMD "the immediate casualties".
From Barron's • Jun. 1, 2026
In short, it is unlikely that the global powers will suspend their rivalries in order to concentrate on the existential risks to mankind.
From MarketWatch • May 31, 2026
As described in chapter 4, many people labeled criminals describe an existential angst associated with their pariah status, an angst that casts a shadow over every aspect of their identity and social experience.
From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander
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