Doomsday Clock, experts warn risks from war, AI and climate
The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists kept the Doomsday Clock at 90 seconds to midnight, its closest setting ever. The group cited the Iran war, Russia's invasion of Ukraine, rapid advances in artificial intelligence, and accelerating climate breakdown as factors increasing the odds of nuclear conflict and societal collapse. The clock is set each year by the Bulletin's Science and Security Board and Board of Sponsors, which include leading scientists and Nobel laureates, to signal global catastrophic risk. Experts say those converging threats make urgent action on nuclear diplomacy, AI governance, and aggressive climate mitigation necessary to reduce existential risk.
Moving the "I need to leave this country" Doomsday clock one minute closer to midnight.
tina14It's made my decision of "should I get off my face tonight or not" decision a lot easier.
Chloe_sailor4Quite depressing at the moment. Only upside is Reform will make such an €rse of trying to run the show they will be exposed as the inept bigots they are and won't win a general election.
The Resistance CO3I need to leave this planet.
BC1083Too late for me, but I think my children will have to leave if they want a future
Jay2My doomsday prepper stash and gun collection looks more practical everyday now.🙃
Sean Skunk-Cabbage (Chou-Puant) ⚓2Man it's like 2am on my clock but everywhere I think I'm gonna move to keeps swinging to the far right themselves
Tony Peace2Yeah, am not enjoying what I've woken up to so far 😞
‘The odds are not in our favour’: who sets the Doomsday Clock – and what can they tell us about the future of humanity?
@citizen14Humanity will survive but a large amount of humans won’t survive.
seacide2Sociocide is the inevitable outcome of capitalism. Why billionaires - for whom we still practice capitalism (colonialism) at any cost to humanity - build bunkers, private militaries and dream about space travel. They're not smart. They're evil fn psychopaths wired to sacrifice everything for self.
I’m genuinely curious about whether the Callais majority understood that they were moving the doomsday clock substantially closer to civil war
Jerry Edwards4I doubt it. They seem to be high on their own supply. I doubt they thought through it beyond "this is good for conservatives and I don't like 'reverse racism.'"
Noam Law2kavanaugh, gorsuch, roberts, and barrett strike me as True Beleivers who think this will help the Republic Hold thomas & alito are lighting the match and licking their lips as democracy burns
