{"id":16519,"date":"2026-06-29T09:25:51","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T16:25:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=16519"},"modified":"2026-06-15T09:28:34","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T16:28:34","slug":"open-ai-models-chose-the-nuclear-option-in-nearly-all-war-simulations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=16519","title":{"rendered":"Open AI models chose the nuclear option in nearly all war simulations"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a <a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2602.14740v1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">report<\/a>\u00a0published in February that brings us one step closer to the Terminator and War Games movies, when presented scenarios, the leading open AI models used nuclear weapons in 95% of war-game scenarios. None chose full surrender, even when losing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/decrypt.co\/359137\/openai-google-anthropic-ai-models-nuclear-weapons-war-simulations\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/decrypt.co\/359137\/openai-google-anthropic-ai-models-nuclear-weapons-war-simulations\">Researchers warn AI use may escalate conflicts under pressure<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a report\u00a0published in February that brings us one step closer to the Terminator and War Games movies, when presented scenarios, the leading open AI models used nuclear weapons in 95% of war-game scenarios. None chose full surrender, even when losing. Researchers warn AI use may escalate conflicts under pressure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[28,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ai","category-cool"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4WECr-4ir","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16519"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16519\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16520,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16519\/revisions\/16520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}