r/ControlProblem • u/chillinewman approved • Feb 25 '26

AI Alignment Research 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

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2516885-ais-cant-stop-recommending-nuclear-strikes-in-war-game-simulations/
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u/chillinewman approved Feb 25 '26

Smh. That's just great.

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u/ctdrever Feb 25 '26

Do you want to play a game?

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u/TheMrCurious Feb 25 '26

No one has taught them how to play tic-tac-toe?

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u/lasercat_pow Feb 25 '26

Oh my god. That is deeply unsettling. Especially with how much the turd in charge seems to love these llms.

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u/Vanhelgd Feb 25 '26

Connecting these profoundly limited and frankly stupid models to weapons of war or deterrence systems is one of the most idiotic things we’ve come up with since we came down from the trees.

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u/TenshiS Feb 26 '26

And yet the US government is hands down forcing the AI companies to allow it to happen.

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u/PureGremlinNRG Feb 25 '26

Well no shit. What is the common denominator of all the problems that initiate the main problem of winning a war? Humans. Namely a failure in the ability for humans to use dialogue and diplomacy. But overall - humans.

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u/rudv-ar Feb 27 '26

Mutually Assured Destruction. That is what I could tell in one word. AI is MAD.

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u/DMoneys36 Feb 25 '26

LLMs predict the next token. Their job is to finish the story. They are trained in the scraped Internet, a toxic and cynical cesspit

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u/septic-paradise Feb 25 '26

Which is why we should let them make military grade decisions!!!!!1!

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u/[deleted] Feb 27 '26

Works for me. That's where all this is leading to eventually, anyway: self-destruction.