90 Seconds to Midnight: Assessing Humanities Greatest Threats

Program Speakers:

Rachel Bronson
President and CEO of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
https://thebulletin.org/biography/rac...

Daniel Holz, PhD’98
Chair of the Science and Security Board at the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientist
Professor at the University of Chicago in the Department of Physics, Astronomy & Astrophysics, the Enrico Fermi Institute, and the Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics
https://astro.uchicago.edu/people/dan...

On January 23, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists announced it is keeping the Doomsday Clock, which tracks existential threats to humankind, set at 90 seconds to midnight, the latest setting in the Clock’s history. President and CEO Rachel Bronson and Daniel Holz, UChicago professor and cochair of the Bulletin’s Science and Security Board, discuss why they kept the current time and how we can turn back the hands of the Clock.

Part of the UChicago Alumni and Friends Harper Lecture Fall 2023 Series. Originally broadcast on February 15, 2024.


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