00:00It is now 89 seconds to midnight.
00:04This is the closest the world has ever been to midnight.
00:10The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists set up the Doomsday Clock in 1947.
00:17Military applications of AI and climate change are blamed for the new calculation, along
00:21with tensions in several global hotspots and the threat of nuclear catastrophe.
00:27The Doomsday Clock was created to warn the public how close humankind was to destroying
00:31the world.
00:33With AI growing exponentially and with limited regulation, some scientists fear it could
00:38potentially reach midnight, destroying the planet.
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