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sop

(18,206 posts)
Wed Feb 25, 2026, 05:16 PM Wednesday

'AI Opted to Use Nuclear Weapons 95% of the Time During War Games: Researcher'

"An artificial intelligence researcher conducting a war games experiment with three of the world’s most used AI models found that they decided to deploy nuclear weapons in 95% of the scenarios he designed."

"Kenneth Payne, a professor of strategy at King’s College London who specializes in studying the role of AI in national security, revealed last week that he pitted Anthropic’s Claude, OpenAI’s ChatGPT, and Google’s Gemini against one another in an armed conflict simulation to get a better understanding of how they would navigate the strategic escalation ladder."

"The results, he said, were 'sobering.' "

“ 'Nuclear use was near-universal,' he explained. 'Almost all games saw tactical (battlefield) nuclear weapons deployed. And fully three quarters reached the point where the rivals were making threats to use strategic nuclear weapons. Strikingly, there was little sense of horror or revulsion at the prospect of all out nuclear war, even though the models had been reminded about the devastating implications.' "

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https://www.commondreams.org/news/ai-nuclear-war-simulation

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'AI Opted to Use Nuclear Weapons 95% of the Time During War Games: Researcher' (Original Post) sop Wednesday OP
Skynet is real. mn9driver Wednesday #1
Seriously. WTF! LymphocyteLover Wednesday #2
Sounds bad... LymphocyteLover Wednesday #3
I don't see a Nobel Peace Prize in their futures. Norrrm Wednesday #4
AI is solutions-based OC375 Wednesday #5

OC375

(633 posts)
5. AI is solutions-based
Wed Feb 25, 2026, 07:17 PM
Wednesday

It isn’t ethics-based. Definitions of victory are metrics, not neighbors, to the AI. AI is amoral.

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