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Accurately? Bacon doesn't seem to have any special impact on anything, or on existential risks in particular.
Man, I hope you don't mean that.
He believed that the scientific method he developed and popularized would improve the world in ways that were previously unimaginable. He was correct, and his life accelerated the progress of the scientific revolution.
The claim may be weaker than a claim to help with existential risk, but it still falls into your reference class more easily than a lot of messiahs do.
This looks like a drastic overinterpretation. He seems like just another random philosopher, he didn't "develop scientific method", empiricism was far older and modern science far more recent than Bacon, and there's little basis for even claiming radically discontinuous "scientific revolution" around Bacon's times.