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 Did we learn nothing from Nuclear Gandhi?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_Gandhi

Nuclear Gandhi - Wikipedia

@flipper @petergleick Nuclear Gandhi is a video game urban legend purporting the existence of a software bug in the 1991 strategy video game Civilization that would eventually force the pacifist leader Mahatma Gandhi to become extremely aggressive and make heavy use of nuclear weapons. Zero consciousness for Ai.