The "Doomsday Clock," which reassesses the state of the world annually, is now set at 85 seconds to midnight — the closest it has ever been to heralding a manmade global catastrophe.
Humanity continues to court species-threatening disaster through nuclear brinkmanship, a failure to address climate change, and a hasty rollout of artificial intelligence (AI), according to the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, the organization that updates the Doomsday Clock.
