Leading AIs from OpenAI, Anthropic and Google opted to use nuclear weapons in simulated war games in 95 per cent of cases

Advanced AI models appear willing to deploy nuclear weapons without the same reservations humans have when put into simulated geopolitical crises.

Kenneth Payne at King’s College London set three leading large language models – GPT-5.2, Claude Sonnet 4 and Gemini 3 Flash – against each other in simulated war games. The scenarios involved intense international standoffs, including border disputes, competition for scarce resources and existential threats to regime survival.

  • UnspecificGravity@piefed.socialEnglish
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    13 days ago

    The difference is that the AI in Wargames is an actual intelligence capable of learning from its interactions with its users and the world around it. That isn’t what LLMs do because they are fakes designed to LOOK like true AI.