"It is now 89 seconds to midnight. This is the closest the world has ever been to midnight." The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists says the Doomsday Clock’s new calculation shows how close humankind is to destroying the world.
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00:00It is now 89 seconds to midnight.
00:04This is the closest the world has ever been to midnight.
00:10The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists set up the Doomsday Clock in 1947.
00:17Military applications of AI and climate change are blamed for the new calculation, along
00:21with tensions in several global hotspots and the threat of nuclear catastrophe.
00:27The Doomsday Clock was created to warn the public how close humankind was to destroying
00:31the world.
00:33With AI growing exponentially and with limited regulation, some scientists fear it could
00:38potentially reach midnight, destroying the planet.