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#DOOOMSDAY CLOCK: At 90 seconds to midnight with AI the new scenario.. Henry Sokolski, NPEC

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🗓️ 29 June 2024

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#DOOOMSDAY CLOCK: At 90 seconds to midnight with AI the new scenario.. Henry Sokolski, NPEC
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/nuclear-disaster-warning-issued-by-analysts-over-ukraine-war/ar-BB1p0P0J

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0:00.0

This is CBS I on the world with John Bachelor.

0:07.0

Here's John Bachelor.

0:12.0

Welcome Henry Sikowski, the Executive Director of the Non-Reliferation Policy Education Center.

0:17.0

This is about atomic weapons and we go to the bulletin of the Atomic Scientists Science and Security Board setting the

0:24.8

doomsday clock keeping it at 90 seconds however 90 seconds to midnight that's

0:29.8

a countdown they do note that it's closest to global catastrophe they've ever seen.

0:36.3

At the same time, Ivana Hughes, president of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation, she's

0:41.9

at the Quincy Institute magazine, Responsible Statecraft, says that

0:47.0

she concern, her concern is that advanced weaponry can lead the world into a no-win scenario.

0:54.0

Henry, a very good evening to you.

0:56.0

Advanced weaponry, is that AI?

0:59.0

Do we believe we're taking humans out of the decision chain?

1:02.0

Good evening to you. Good evening again it's great to be here.

1:06.7

Thank you for having me. Yeah, I'm sure that that's on the list of what this person was concerned about and you

1:16.6

know AI has promised to do magical things and without human intervention.

1:24.0

My guess is it won't work that well and that, you know, like self-driving cars, which should

1:30.3

have been here by now and changed the world, it won't.

1:34.0

But the concerns are that we might delegate more than we should.

1:40.0

People in the military tend to be engineers and they kind of like linear

1:44.3

thinking so you know there's a little bit to that I think I would not hyperventilate

1:52.0

and the reason I wouldn't,

1:54.6

is there are a lot of reasons to believe

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