Doomsday Clock remains at 90 seconds to midnight
Despite a 2024 so far marked with serious conflicts, climate uncertainty and the rapid ascension of AI technologies, the famous Doomsday Clock has remained paused at 90 seconds to midnight, the same time as last year.The clock, created in 1947 by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, aims to signify how close to world destruction we are. While it initially focused on nuclear annihilation – fittingly, given Albert Einstein, J. Robert Oppenheimer and other Manhattan Project scientists were among its founders – it was…