{"id":82841,"date":"2026-05-11T08:41:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T12:41:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=82841"},"modified":"2026-05-11T08:41:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T12:41:14","slug":"the-odds-are-not-in-our-favor-who-sets-the-doomsday-clock-and-what-can-they-tell-us-about-the-future-of-humanity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/the-odds-are-not-in-our-favor-who-sets-the-doomsday-clock-and-what-can-they-tell-us-about-the-future-of-humanity\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018The Odds Are Not In Our Favor\u2019: Who Sets The Doomsday Clock \u2013 And What Can They Tell Us About The Future Of Humanity?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <em>The Guardian<\/em>:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/aeedca4ace37270dca9d8c256573d992d3161826\/200_0_1255_1004\/master\/1255.jpg?width=480&amp;dpr=1&amp;s=none&amp;crop=none\" alt=\"Doomsday clock showing time close to midnight on red background\" width=\"333\" height=\"266\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"dcr-15rw6c2\">T<\/span>he Earth is getting hotter. Conflicts are raging, in the Middle East and Ukraine, each increasing the chance of nuclear war. AI is infiltrating almost every aspect of our lives, despite its unpredictability and tendency to hallucinate. Scientists, tinkering in labs, risk introducing\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2023\/may\/30\/lab-leaks-shrouded-secrecy\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">new, deadly pathogens<\/a>, more destructive than Covid. Our\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/article\/2024\/jul\/19\/uk-in-worse-state-to-deal-with-pandemic-than-before-covid-say-experts\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">pandemic response preparedness has weakened<\/a>. The Doomsday Clock \u2013 a large, quarter clock with no numbers, keeps ticking, counting down the seconds until the apocalypse. Tick. Tick. Tick. In January, we reached 85 seconds to midnight. Experts believe humanity has never stood so close to the brink.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat we have seen is a slow almost sleepwalk into increasing dangers over the last decade. And we see these problems growing. We see science advancing at a rate that defies our ability to understand it, much less control it,\u201d says Alexandra Bell, CEO of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, the organisation that sets the Doomsday Clock.<\/p>\n<div class=\"gsp_post_data\" \r\n\t            data-post_type=\"post\" \r\n\t            data-cat=\"news\" \r\n\t            data-modified=\"120\"\r\n\t            data-created=\"1778488874\"\r\n\t            data-title=\"\u2018The Odds Are Not In Our Favor\u2019: Who Sets The Doomsday Clock \u2013 And What Can They Tell Us About The Future Of Humanity?\" \r\n\t            data-home=\"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From The Guardian: The Earth is getting hotter. Conflicts are raging, in the Middle East and Ukraine, each increasing the.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-82841","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82841"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82841\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82842,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82841\/revisions\/82842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}