According to Payne, the models escalated to the point of tactical nuclear war in 95 percent of scenarios, noting that nuclear threats to each other were far more likely to escalate than de-escalate ...
AI like ChatGPT uses nuclear escalation in 95% of war game simulations, study finds - ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini threaten ...
A recent study conducted by a King’s College London professor, Kenneth Payne, found that ...
Leading AIs from OpenAI, Anthropic and Google opted to use nuclear weapons in simulated war games in 95 per cent of cases ...
As the Department of Defense pushes for greater AI integration, researchers said the top models chose the nuclear option in nearly all war simulations.
Imagine handing the nuclear launch codes to the world’s most advanced artificial intelligence. You’d hope the machine would ...
As the video illustrates, it doesn’t matter much who starts the war: when one side launches nuclear missiles, the other side detects them and fires back before impact. Ballistic missiles from U.S.
"The nuclear taboo doesn’t seem to be as powerful for machines [as] for humans." The post Something Very Alarming Happens ...
Top AI models were asked to simulate nuclear war and consistently chose to launch. GPT-5.2, Claude Sonnet 4, and Gemini 3 Flash treated escalation as a rational strategy in 21 high-stakes crisis games ...
The actions of AI large language models are concerning—but broadly similar to human decision-makers, who have used nuclear ...
Shiv Aroor breaks down a step-by-step simulation of how the Iran-US-Israel conflict could escalate into a full-scale regional ...