The final judgment of the 2025 clock: now we are 89 seconds, and the technology is guilty

One of the traditions of the beginning of the year is what the Council for Science and the Security of Scientists -Atomic Scientists of Chicago University, which provided 2025 final judgment hoursField

Founded in 1945 by Albert Einstein, J. Robert Oppenheimer And other scientists, the balloon of scientists -atomic scientists created the clock of the final trial in two years as part of the Manhattan project (atomic bomb), using the images of the apocalypse (midnight) and the modern language of the nuclear explosion (the return to zero) transmit threats to humanity and planet. The last hours of solutions are created every year by the Bulletin Science and Security Council in a consultation with its advice of sponsors, which includes nine Nobel awards. The clock has become a universally recognized indicator of the world’s vulnerability to global catastrophes caused by technologies created by a person.

“In 2024, humanity more and more approached the catastrophe. The trends that deeply concerned the Council on Science and Security continued, and, despite the unambiguous dangers, national leaders and their society did not do what is necessary to change the course. Therefore, now we are moving the final judgment From 90 seconds to 89 seconds For midnight, as close as a disaster. Our hot hope is that leaders are aware of the complex existential situation of the world and take bold measures to reduce threats, when nuclear weapons, climate change and possible improper use of biological science and many technologies, ”they say, say the ballot.

Some of the causes are nuclear risk, climate change and biological threats, but the technology plays a predominant role.

“A series of other destructive technologies has advanced last year in ways that make the world more dangerous. In Ukraine and the Middle East, systems were used that included artificial intelligence in the choice of military goals, and several countries move to the integration of artificial intelligence into their army. Such efforts ask questions to what extent the military decisions will make, even decisions that can kill on a large scale, including those related to the use of nuclear weapons. The tension between the main powers is increasingly reflected in competition in space, where China and Russia are actively developing anti -letters; The United States claim that Russia has tried a satellite with a fictitious eye, which involves plans to place nuclear weapons in orbit, ”adds the ballot.

89 seconds are absent at midnight.