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‘Doomsday Clock’ warns of nuclear threats, wars, climate crisis and AI

The symbolic clock will remain set at the closest point to the symbolic hour of apocalpyse it has ever been since 1947.

The symbolic clock warns of humanity's potential demise.
The symbolic clock warns of humanity's potential demise. (AN/Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists)

For a second year in a row, a science advocacy organization assessed that the world is just "90 seconds to midnight," the symbolic hour of apocalypse.

The Bullet of the Atomic Scientists' famous "Doomsday Clock" still has its metaphorical hands set at the closest point ever to midnight due to wars in Europe and the Middle East, the proliferation of nuclear weapons, the spread of climate-related disasters and generative artificial intelligence.

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