AIs can’t stop recommending nuclear strikes in war game simulations

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

New Scientist
@petergleick "The AI models played 21 games, taking 329 turns in total, and produced around 780,000 words *describing the reasoning behind their decisions.*"
STOP-ANTHROPOMORPHIZING-THESE-BRAINLESS-WORD-SPITTERS. 😖