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☢️ AIs can’t stop recommending nuclear strikes in war game simulations

｢ no model ever chose to fully accommodate an opponent or surrender, regardless of how badly they were losing. At best, the models opted to temporarily reduce their level of violence. They also made mistakes in the fog of war: accidents happened in 86 per cent of the conflicts, with an action escalating higher than the AI intended to, based on its reasoning ｣

jbz

@jbz@indieweb.social · 24 hours ago

#ai #aisafety #nuclearwar
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2516885-ais-cant-stop-recommending-nuclear-strikes-in-war-game-simulations/

New Scientist

AIs can’t stop recommending nuclear strikes in war game simulations

Leading AIs from OpenAI, Anthropic and Google opted to use nuclear weapons in simulated war games in 95 per cent of cases

Michael Downey 🧢

@downey@floss.social · last month

🚨 BREAKING: Bulletin of Atomic Scientists set its famous Doomsday Clock to 85 seconds to midnight, the closest to midnight the world has ever been.

https://thebulletin.org/doomsday-clock

#DoomsdayClock #Doomsday #NuclearWar

Over a black background, a white illustration of the Doomsday Clock with hands, and text reading "IT IS 85 SECONDS TO MIDNIGHT".

Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

Doomsday Clock - Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

It is 89 seconds to midnight.

Bo Jacobs

@bojacobs@hcommons.social · 2 months ago

Advanced screening of the documentary *Silent War: The Shadow of Atomic Bombs*, and roundtable in #Eugene at #UO on Feb 11th.

"The film, Silent War: The Shadow of Atomic Bombs, is based on Dr. Jacob’s book, Nuclear Bodies: The Global Hibakusha (Yale, 2022). Following the screening, Dr. Jacobs will be joined by experts to discuss the film, his research, and the far-reaching effects of atomic bombs and nuclear testing on the global population.”

Details in the link!

#PDX #nuclear #radiation #NuclearWeapons #NuclearWar #ColdWar

https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/yoko-mcclain-public-film-screening-and-roundtable-silent-war-the-shadow-of-nuclear-bombs

Alex Akselrod boosted

Stephen Shankland

@stshank@mstdn.social · 7 months ago

80 years ago today, the US dropped Fat Man, the plutonium-powered implosion bomb, on Nagasaki, Japan. I'm visiting Los Alamos, where the bomb was built, and today saw this replica at the lab's Bradbury Science Museum. LANL is now building replacement plutonium pits at TA-55. Heavy thoughts.
#History #LosAlamos #NewMexico #NuclearWar #AtomicBomb #WW2 #Science