Nuclear annihilation coming to an Earth near you soon

Brogan

Brogan

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They launched nuclear weapons in 95% of 21 simulated war games and never surrendered.

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.
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www.newscientist.com

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
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Oh and to tie in to this story, Anthropic (the AI company) has a $200 million contract with the Pentagon.

Hegseth has told Anthropic to remove the human element from the "kill chain" or lose the contract.

Anthropic have so far resisted but if they accede, then that's essentially the end of the world for the bargain price of $200 million.
 
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