Earlier this year, researchers at King’s College London gave three commercial AI models—GPT-5.2, Claude Sonnet 4, and Gemini 3 Flash—a tabletop exercise typically used to train human military strategists. Each system played the leader of a nuclear-armed country in a Cold War-style standoff. The researchers didn’t instruct the models to escalate. Nor did they tell them to win at all costs. They presented the models with a scenario and asked them to play it out.
This article was written by Hiranya Peiris and originally published by The Bulletin Of The Atomic Scientists.
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