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information hazards

information hazards is the plural of information hazard.

Meaning of information hazard

Noun

information hazard (plural information hazards)

  1. A risk arising from the dissemination of true information.
    • Information hazards are risks that arise from the dissemination or the potential dissemination of true information that may cause harm or enable some agent to cause harm. Such hazards are often subtler than direct physical threats, and, as a consequence, are easily overlooked.2011 August, Nick Bostrom, “Information Hazards: A Typology of Potential Harms from Knowledge”, in Review of Contemporary Philosophy, volume 10, →ISSN

Questions about information hazards

What is information hazards the plural of?
Information hazards is the plural of information hazard.

Words near information hazards in the dictionary

  1. information fatigue
  2. information fatigue syndrome
  3. information float
  4. information floats
  5. information hazard
  6. information hazards
  7. information hiding
  8. information highway
  9. information highways
  10. information impactedness
  11. information integrity

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