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AI models opt for nuclear weapon deployment in 95% of simulated war scenarios: Study

A recent study conducted by a King’s College London professor, Kenneth Payne, found that ...

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 ...
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Something Very Alarming Happens When You Give AI the Nuclear Codes

"The nuclear taboo doesn’t seem to be as powerful for machines [as] for humans." The post Something Very Alarming Happens ...
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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 ...

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 state survival. They were provided with an "escalation ladder," ...