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AI often escalates to nuclear action in war games

There are some things perhaps we might not want artificial intelligence to handle, at least for the time being. When leading ...

AI resorts to nuclear weapons in 95% of simulations – study

A new experiment has found that leading AI models from OpenAI, Anthropic and Google are highly prone to using nuclear weapons ...

LLMs used tactical nuclear weapons in 95% of AI war games, launched strategic strikes three times — researcher pitted GPT-5.2, Claude Sonnet 4, and Gemini 3 Flas…

A researcher made three different AI LLMs the heads of state of nuclear-powered nations and made them face off with each ...

Simulated war scenarios reveal AI's tendency to push toward nuclear strikes

Each AI model was fed detailed scenario prompts spanning border conflicts, resource shortages, and existential threats to ...