Humanity is found a second closer to its extinction. After two years without progress or backward, the committee of experts of the Bulletin of atomic scientists He announced yesterday that he had decided from 90 to 89indicating how much we are symbolically, of the End of the world As we know him. Since its creation in 1947, I had never been so close.
The main reasons for advancing the Watch of the Final Judgment or the end of the world (Doomsday Clock, in English) are war conflicts and nuclear climbing. According to the expert committee of the organization that every January announces whether or not, so much the War in Ukraine Like the situation in Middle East and the lack of advances in the control agreements of the Nuclear weapons They have increased danger. They also point out as a weight factor The climatic crisiswhich entered the risks of those alert in 2007, by the Increased greenhouse gas emissions and droughts, floods and heat waves.
Other risks that threaten humanity concern artificial intelligence. By his Integration with military technologywhich raises the possibility that it is an AI who makes critical decisions in a war scenario, and its use for the disinformationincreasingly easy to distribute and more difficult to detect, ‘that the communication ecosystem degrades and increasingly blur the line between truth and falsehood.’
The Watch time of the final judgment is established every year the Bulletin of the Board of Science and Safety of Atomic Scientists (SASB), in consultation with its Board of Sponsors, which includes nine Nobel Awards.
Daniel HolzPresident of the SASB, Bulletin of Atomic Scientists and Professor at the University of Chicago, has indicated that ‘the purpose of the world’s end is to initiate A global conversation about very real existential threats that keep awake at night to the most prominent scientists in the world. National leaders must initiate debates about these global risks Before it’s too late. Reflecting on these issues of life or death and starting a dialogue are the first steps to go back and midnight away‘.
WHAT IS THE WIND OF THE END OF THE WORLD
The world’s watch was created 78 years ago by the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, the organization founded by Albert Einstein, Robert Oppenheimer and other scientists who participated in the Manhattan projectto alert the risk of a nuclear conflict. This was his initial approach, but over the years he has taken a broader one that aims to raise awareness of the people of ‘How close we are to destroy our world with dangerous technologies of our own creation ‘according to the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists on its website. Other threats that take into consideration and suppose a risk to humanity are environmental, biological and technological.
Since 1947, when he stood at 7 minutes of midnightthe clock has modified its position in 26 occasions. The farther of midnight was in 1991after the end of the Cold war and the disarmament agreements signed by the United States and Russia. Then he stood at 17 minutes of the apocalypse. In the 33 years since then, has advanced 15 minutes and 31 seconds.