existential threat

Chinese meaning
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Example
the president dismissed fears that AI poses an existential threat to humanity and argued against calls to slow frontier AI development.
Source: Fox Business · 14 Sep 2026
Background ✎
Roots · etymology
exist 源自拉丁 exsistere(浮现,存在)
- exist(存在)+ -ent(形容词后缀)+ -ial(形容词后缀,关乎……的)+ threat(威胁)
Collocations
- existential threat to / existential crisis / existential risk





