X-risk that can wipe out the human species in a short-timespan due to conscious/planning machine intelligence
X-risk that can wipe out the human species due to cascading effects without any central plan/conscious intent (potential for resistance but insufficient)
Events creating a global war-scale event that the human species can survive but with losses in the millions or at most billions
Cascading effects (y-risk)* that can threaten millions of lives but can be reeled in** due to dynamics/buffers preventing x-risk territory being viable?