(The Hill) – The world slipped further toward the abyss over the past year, with the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists on Tuesday moving the hands of the famed Doomsday Clock four seconds closer to midnight, at 85 seconds.
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The 80-year tradition of the Doomsday Clock is meant to serve as an urgent call to action for populations to demand change and governments to reverse factors moving the world closer to catastrophe.
Those factors include nuclear annihilation as well as climactic disasters; AI advancing faster than the ability to govern it; biological risks and spread of disease; the rise of autocracies; and the proliferation of mis- and disinformation…