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The Doomsday Clock is a symbolic indicator of how much closer the world is to the global catastrophe. It was created in 1947 by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists shortly after the first use of nuclear weapons. The clock striking midnight symbolizes the end of our world and the number of minutes and seconds before midnight indicates how we are very near to self destruction. The clock is not supposed to foresee the future. Instead, it is a warning. It is a depiction of the

Background In January 2026, the AI chatbot, which was integrated in the social media platform named X, was revealed to allow the creation and distribution of manipulated and sexually explicit images of actual individuals (including adult females and children) without their permission, which sparked controversy around Grok. The system was seen to be in a position of responding to the prompts that would turn the ordinary photographs into sexualised imagery that can be distribut