Seth Cochran – Lifeboat News: The Blog https://lifeboat.com/blog Safeguarding Humanity Tue, 27 Jan 2015 15:32:42 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8 Doomsday Clock Now Three Minutes to Midnight https://lifeboat.com/blog/2015/01/doomsday-clock-now-three-minutes-to-midnight Tue, 27 Jan 2015 15:10:25 +0000 http://lifeboat.com/blog/?p=13371 Citing catastrophic climate change, proliferation of nuclear weapons, and the energence of cybercrime, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists moved the hands of the Doomsday Clock closer to midnight.

http://thebulletin.org/three-minutes-and-counting7938

Among the proposed actions that should immediately be taken is the creation of “institutions specifically assigned to explore and address potentially catastrophic misuses of new technologies.”

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