AI bots threatened to use nuclear weapons to destroy rival nations in a simulated war game at levels that would “alarm any student of nuclear strategy”, a study has found.

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 ...

There are some things perhaps we might not want artificial intelligence to handle, at least for the time being. When leading ...