An AI expert warns that in the balance of power between AI acceleration and AI safety, acceleration is winning.

The fear of impending doom has been looming over the heads of people since the dawn of time, whether it be an asteroid or nuclear warfare. Many people would like to know how and when or even if the ...

Juan Noguera, an industrial design professor at Rochester Institute of Technology, stands in the university's design shop.

Letter: Originally set at seven minutes to midnight, the time now is 89 seconds to midnight, the closest it’s been.

This year’s Doomsday Clock Statement landed like a damp squib in a Trump-swamped corporate news cycle on January 28th. The ...

Alexandra Bell is bringing more than a decade of experience in nuclear policy to the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, the ...

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How near is that threat of omnicide today? The Doomsday Clock is a visual metaphor created by the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists back in 1947 to illustrate how close we are to global calamity from ...

The Doomsday Clock is a metric maintained by the Bulletin ... and has been maintained as a metaphor since 1947. Can the hands of the clock be turned back? Yes, but in order for that to happen ...

Here's what to know about the Doomsday Clock and what it means. The Doomsday Clock is a metaphor or symbol representing how close humanity is to self-destruction via a human-made global ...

Here's a look at how —... Humanity is closer than ever to catastrophe, according to the atomic scientists behind the Doomsday Clock. The ominous metaphor ticked one second closer to midnight ...

The Doomsday Clock now stands at 89 seconds to midnight, the closest to catastrophe in its nearly eight-decade history.