Scientists, experts to discuss “Doomsday Clock”
October 21st, 2011
At an upcoming conference in the UNAS city of Chicago, a group of distinguished scientists, military commanders, diplomats, and analysts will consider how much danger sapient species are in from weapons of mass destruction, emerging biological and nanotechnological threats, and rampant artificial intelligences. The conference is sponsored by the Bulletin of the Physical Scientists, which traces its founding to 1947 CE. Since that year, the Bulletin has symbolized threats to sapient life with a “Doomsday Clock” with “midnight” representing catastrophic extinction. The Doomsday Clock has been set closer and further from midnight as threats have grown and receded. The clock was last changed in 2183, when it was it was moved to its current setting: four minutes to midnight.
[via Galactic Policy Magazine]
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