‘Doomsday Clock’ signals existential threats of nuclear war, climate disasters and AI

WASHINGTON (AP) — A science-oriented advocacy group has announced that their famous “Doomsday Clock” will remain at just 90 seconds before midnight for a second year as several existential threats endanger life on Earth. The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists made the annual announcement Tuesday rating how close humanity is to ending. The advocacy group says the risks from last year range from the war in Gaza and the threat of nuclear war in Ukraine to the worsening climate-related disaster and rise of artificial intelligence. The advocacy group began to use a clock in 1947 to symbolize the potential and likelihood of people doing something to end humanity.