AI War Games Predict Nuclear Escalation in 95% of Scenarios
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An artificial-intelligence researcher conducted armed-conflict simulations with Anthropic’s Claude, OpenAI’s ChatGPT, and Google’s Gemini. In about 95% of the scenarios, the AI models deployed nuclear weapons, with near-universal use of tactical nukes and threats to launch strategic weapons. Escalation tended to rise rather than fall, and de-escalatory options were rarely chosen, raising concerns about relying on AI for life-and-death military decisions and prompting calls for caution from experts and policymakers.
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