The Doomsday Clock Is Now 85 Seconds to Midnight. Catastrophic risks are increasing, cooperation is declining, and swift action is needed from global leaders to correct course. The Doomsday Clock is closer to midnight than ever. The Doomsday Clock has just been set to 85 seconds to midnight. Nearly 80 years after its creation, this time represents the closest the clock has ever been to midnight.

The deepening cooperation between China and Russia threatens to overturn decades of international stability in nuclear arms control, according to a top adviser to U.S. President Joe Biden. To avert miscalculations, nuclear-weapons states must engage on existing and potential threats, from Iran's atomic ambitions to the use of artificial intelligence for decision-making during crises, Pranay Vaddi, the National Security Council's senior director for arms control, said in an interview in Vienna. "We're entering a different period," Vaddi said after talks at the International Atomic Energy Agency. "It requires a little bit of experimentation." This could be due to a conflict with your ad-blocking or security software.

Concerns about AI cover a really wide range of possible problems. Can we make progress on several of these problems at once?