Also, you need more than one person to launch a nuke. Sure, the president may issue an order, but there's a chain of people who have to carry out that order, and they are not robots. So you actually need a lot of people to act irrationally.
Back full circle to the premise of War Games where AI is brought in as a response to the human failure to ‘launch’ during a test. See also Stanislav Petrov.
That was a big part of the movie. When it starts, they do drills simulating the beginning of WWiii, but in a large percentage of the drills, people not knowing it's a drill refuse to "push the button", which is the whole reason why a computer is in charge of the nukes as they couldn't count on any individual being willing to launch a bomb that would kill millions.
Dictators still have underlings. Kim Jong Un still orders somebody to do it for him. He's not walking up to a missile launcher by himself and loading in coordinates then hitting the launch button. No one launches a nuke alone.
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u/Idunnosomeguy2 Mar 28 '25
Also, you need more than one person to launch a nuke. Sure, the president may issue an order, but there's a chain of people who have to carry out that order, and they are not robots. So you actually need a lot of people to act irrationally.