Los cient\u00edficos han enumerado razones para mantener sus manos m\u00e1s cerca que nunca del “D\u00eda del Juicio Final”, pero no han llegado a empujarlo m\u00e1s hacia adelante. La amenaza de una nueva carrera armamentista nuclear, la guerra en Ucrania , en Medio Oriente y las preocupaciones por el cambio clim\u00e1tico fueron factores, dijeron. El reloj se fija anualmente por el Bolet\u00edn de los Cient\u00edficos At\u00f3micos.<\/p>\n
The experts who maintain the ominous Doomsday Clock said Tuesday that humanity is still as close as ever to global catastrophe, which could involve nuclear war, climate change, or maybe even artificial intelligence.<\/p>\n
The time on the symbolic clock\u00a0is the same as last year<\/a>\u00a0when the Doomsday Clock was first set at 90 seconds to midnight, the closest to midnight the clock has ever been.<\/p>\n The Doomsday Clock is a metaphor for how close humanity is to self-annihilation, according to the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, which has maintained the clock since 1947. The group was founded in 1945 by University of Chicago scientists who had helped develop the first nuclear weapons in the Manhattan Project.<\/p>\n The clock remained at the same time as last year due to the continued heightened levels of risk from threats such as ongoing wars and out-of-control climate change. This year, experts also said they were especially worried about how advances in artificial intelligence could sow chaos, making it harder to prevent global disasters.<\/p>\n The scientists created the clock using the imagery of the apocalypse (midnight) and the contemporary idiom of nuclear explosion (countdown to zero) to convey threats to humanity and the Earth.<\/p>\n Tuesday marks the first update to the clock since the start of the\u00a0Israel-Hamas war<\/a>\u00a0and the second since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine renewed fears of global nuclear war.<\/p>\n