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

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 ...

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

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

Simulations created by the US Pentagon reveal the potential devastation a nuclear bomb detonated in space as Russia probes stationing weapons in space.

If the bomb detonated at or near ground level, a towering mushroom cloud would form, sucking up soil, steel, concrete, and whatever remains of the people and buildings below. That cloud wouldn’t just ...