Imagine handing the nuclear launch codes to the world’s most advanced artificial intelligence. You’d hope the machine would ...

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 ...

As the Department of Defense pushes for greater AI integration, researchers said the top models chose the nuclear option in ...

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A new study has revealed an aggressive nature of AI systems, exhibiting that chatbots do not hesitate to use nuclear weapons ...

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Claude, ChatGPT, and Gemini all had different personalities and reasoning tactics, but the endgame was the same Today's hottest bots have yet to learn that, when it comes to global thermonuclear war, ...

An artificial intelligence researcher conducting a war games experiment with three of the world’s most used AI models found ...

Trump Says War With Iran Is Totally Still on the Table Donald Trump rejected reports that his advisers were counseling him to ...

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 ...

Trump has already pushed back on reporting that the U.S. isn’t ready to strike. In a lengthy Truth Social post Monday, the ...