{"id":213680,"date":"2026-02-15T04:47:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-15T09:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/15\/doomsday-clock-advances-to-85-seconds-to-midnight-amid-escalating-ai-disinformation-and-global-tensions\/"},"modified":"2026-02-15T05:15:16","modified_gmt":"2026-02-15T10:15:16","slug":"doomsday-clock-advances-to-85-seconds-to-midnight-amid-escalating-ai-disinformation-and-global-tensions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/15\/doomsday-clock-advances-to-85-seconds-to-midnight-amid-escalating-ai-disinformation-and-global-tensions\/","title":{"rendered":"Doomsday Clock Advances to 85 Seconds to Midnight Amid Escalating AI Disinformation and Global Tensions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/avandatimes.com\/tech\/doomsday-clock-advances-to-85-seconds-to-midnight-amid-escalating-ai-disinformation-and-global-tensions\/\">Doomsday Clock Advances to 85 Seconds to Midnight Amid Escalating AI Disinformation and Global Tensions<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/avandatimes.com\/tech\/doomsday-clock-advances-to-85-seconds-to-midnight-amid-escalating-ai-disinformation-and-global-tensions\/\">https:\/\/avandatimes.com\/tech\/doomsday-clock-advances-to-85-seconds-to-midnight-amid-escalating-ai-disinformation-and-global-tensions\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-02-15 04:47:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"avandatimes.com\">avandatimes.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>AVANDATIMES.COM<\/strong> \u2013 The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists has moved its symbolic Doomsday Clock forward by four seconds, placing humanity at an unprecedented 85 seconds to midnight, a stark warning reflecting a confluence of escalating global threats. This latest adjustment, announced on Saturday, 14 February 2026, primarily highlights the accelerating dangers posed by artificial intelligence (AI) in fueling disinformation, alongside persistent nuclear weapon risks and a perceived lack of serious action on climate change.<\/p>\n<p>Daniel Holz, chair of the Bulletin\u2019s Science and Security Board and a professor of physics at the University of Chicago, underscored AI\u2019s pivotal role in the decision. \u201cAI is a significant and accelerating disruptive technology,\u201d Holz stated during the announcement, emphasizing its profound impact on global stability.<\/p>\n<p>The board noted that the rapid advancement of AI technology is exacerbating a critical erosion of trust in information systems, making it increasingly difficult for societies to address complex global challenges. \u201cAI is also supercharging mis- and disinformation, which makes it even more difficult to address all of the other threats we consider. But instead of working toward international standards governing AI safety, we are running headlong into an AI arms race with what could be dire consequences,\u201d Holz warned.<\/p>\n<p>Journalist and Nobel Peace Prize recipient Maria Ressa echoed these concerns, describing the combined effect of AI and social media as an \u201cinformation armageddon.\u201d She argued that without a foundation of reliable information, a \u201cshared reality\u201d necessary to confront existential threats like climate change and nuclear weapons becomes unattainable. Ressa articulated the fundamental importance of truth in governance: \u201cInformation integrity is the mother of all models, because you can\u2019t run democracy on a corrupted operating system.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Concerns about AI\u2019s societal impact extend beyond&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/avandatimes.com\/tech\/doomsday-clock-advances-to-85-seconds-to-midnight-amid-escalating-ai-disinformation-and-global-tensions\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Doomsday Clock Advances to 85 Seconds to Midnight Amid Escalating AI Disinformation and Global Tensions&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":213681,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/avandatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Logo.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-213680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213680"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213680"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213680\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":213682,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213680\/revisions\/213682"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/213681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}