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The scientists are set to update today i.e. Tuesday January 23, 2024 the Doomsday Clock for 2024 with experts predicting it may move closer to midnight based on the intensifying geopolitical and environmental challenges.

Whatever kind of AI is out there today is what teenagers and young college students are going to inherit tomorrow. Which is why 900 of them came together in "Encode Justice."

The clock is a symbolic timepiece showing how close the world is to ending.

The Doomsday Clock is a symbolic clock: a metaphor for how close humanity is to self-annihilation, according to the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.

The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists has set its Doomsday Clock at a new time that indicates how close we are to making Earth uninhabitable for humanity.

The Doomsday Clock is going to be set for 2024 today, having been moved closer to midnight than ever before last year.

The symbolic clock indicates humanity is doomed if it reaches midnight. Today it will be updated - and will likely edge closer to midnight due to the Israel-Hamas war.

In deciding the time for 2024, scientists will consider multiple global threats, including AI, the Russia-Ukraine war, Israel-Hamas conflict and the climate crisis.

A life-long opponent of nuclear weapons—raised during the Cold War—reflects on intergenerational lessons about activism, and teaching college students to embrace their curiosity, and their fear, on the way to saving the world.

The scientists emphasised in their announcement that the clock could be turned back, but governments and people need to take urgent action.