Artificial Intelligence played Wargames. The result isn’t reassuring. [Video]

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A group of researchers had artificial intelligence play wargames, and that gives us a good idea for how we could all die. They tested five different large language models and asked them to make decisions in war situations. They told the AIs that this is a real-world situation and not a simulation! Nevertheless, for all models they found a risk that a nuclear war would develop without provocation out of an initially neutral situation. Some AIs are more war-loving than others though.

The paper is here: https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.03408

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