Revelation clock is almost hitting midnight. The next trendy is the destruction

It sounds like a joke, but it is a “warning to world leaders,” which are increasingly on the verge of activating nuclear devastation.

On Tuesday, atomic scientists brought their “Judgment Clock” more than ever midnight, says. This watch is hit by experts from Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists and serves to alert to world problems.

We’ve never been from midnight: at the Apocalypse clock, We are about 89 seconds of the destruction.

“The definition of the final judgment clock in 89 seconds for midnight is a Notice For all world leaders, ”says Daniel Holz, chairman of the Bulletin Science and Security Council.

“A War in Ukraine It remains a major source of nuclear risk. The conflict may scale to include nuclear weapons at any time due to a precipitated decision or by accident and calculation error, ”he continues.

But also other conflicts, such as the Middle East, or “other potential hot points worldwide, including Taiwan and North Korea,” are a siren for the threat of nuclear destruction.

The factors that influenced this year’s decision were, therefore, “nuclear risk, climate change, potential misuse of advances in biological science and a variety of other emerging technologies, such as artificial intelligence”, which the bulletin ensures that it does not They were new problems in 2024. The previous year, we were 90 seconds from the “Revelation”.

“But we have been watching insufficient progress in approaching the main challenges and, in many cases, this is having increasingly negative and worrying effects,” they justify.

Another alarming aspect is, for experts, AI. “You AI advances are starting to appear on the battlefield In a shy but worrying way, and it is particularly worrying the future possibility of nuclear weapons applications. In addition, AI is increasingly disturbing the world information ecosystem. The misinformation and misinformation fed by AI will only aggravate this dysfunction, ”says Holz.

Finally, the climate change Increasingly aggravated, in a year when a record of global warming around the world is reached, they are a concern. “Although there has been an impressive growth of wind and solar energy, the world is still short of what is needed to avoid the worst aspects of climate change.”