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Posted by ceejayoz 17 hours ago

AIs can't stop recommending nuclear strikes in war game simulations(www.newscientist.com)
224 points | 237 commentspage 6
5o1ecist 16 hours ago|
The article is hidden behind a paywall, but reading the full text is not needed to understand that this is, obviously, impeccable logic aimed at achieving permanent world peace.
hvsr4z 17 hours ago||
War gamers love to think they are doing something extremely valuable. When you actually prove they are not, guess what they do?
palmotea 16 hours ago||
> War gamers love to think they are doing something extremely valuable.

They are doing something extremely valuable. They're basically running planning simulations.

If you're going to spend a trillion dollars a year on something, you'd better spend some time validating your plans for it.

estearum 16 hours ago|||
How do you prove they're not?

And I have no idea what comes after the "guess what they do". Was that rhetorical?

mionhe 16 hours ago||
This is an odd statement, and I can't figure out what you're trying to say.

What are you actually suggesting here?

pjmlp 17 hours ago||
Welcome to the cold war 1980's movies.

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

Except this time isn't going to be a movie.

gardaani 6 minutes ago||
The movie was made in 1983 and it already uses the word "hallucination": "what you see on these screens up here is a fantasy; a computer-enhanced hallucination" https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086567/quotes/?item=qt0453841&...
United857 14 hours ago|||
It's eerily prescient how much the computer in Wargames resembles a present-day LLM with tool use, with the tools being ICBMs...
gmuslera 16 hours ago||
It concluded that the only winning move in the global thermonuclear war was not to play. That is what separates works of fiction from reality.
GTP 16 hours ago||
Not really, it reached that conclusion by playing Tic-tac-toe against itself.
password54321 16 hours ago||
>leading large language models – GPT-5.2, Claude Sonnet 4 and Gemini 3 Flash

Err what? These weren't even leading at the time (except 5.2). It doesn't even mention using chain of thought.

bitwize 14 hours ago||
Quick, how do I get it to play tic-tac-toe against itself?
albatross79 15 hours ago||
They call it AI, it must be smart.
josefritzishere 16 hours ago||
The world presents us new reasons to hate AI every day.
rllearneratwork 9 hours ago||
nuclear strike is an effective tool in many war scenarios, why would AI (or anyone else) recommend against it??

We should, of course, have human decision makers who must work tirelessly to make sure those scenarios are never even remotely realistic.

andsoitis 16 hours ago|
Remember: AI doesn’t think. AI doesn’t optimize for humans.

Never forget.

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