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Surprisingly, scientists decline to move the Doomsday Clock closer to midnight
Humanity is still at the closest point its been to doomsday.
“There are two key messages in our statement and they are one: that 90 seconds to midnight is profoundly unstable and must not engender complacency and two: the advancement of technology is quickening and outpacing our ability to govern them,” Rachel Bronson, president and CEO of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, said during a press event today. Now, the time is set by science and security experts who assess human-made threats including climate change, nuclear weapons, and “new disruptive technologies” like AI and biotechnology, the Bulletin says. And recent advances in artificial intelligence raise a variety of questions about how to control a technology that could improve or threaten civilization in countless ways.”
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