{"id":19405,"date":"2025-09-10T19:52:23","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T19:52:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=19405"},"modified":"2025-09-10T19:52:23","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T19:52:23","slug":"the-ai-doomsday-machine-is-closer-to-reality-than-you-think","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=19405","title":{"rendered":"The AI Doomsday Machine Is Closer to Reality Than You Think"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&#8220;Almost all of the AI models showed a preference to escalate aggressively, use firepower indiscriminately and turn crises into shooting wars \u2014 even to the point of launching nuclear weapons. \u201cThe AI is always playing Curtis LeMay,\u201d says Schneider, referring to the notoriously nuke-happy Air Force general of the Cold War. \u201cIt\u2019s almost like the AI understands escalation, but not de-escalation. We don\u2019t really know why that is.\u201d&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/magazine\/2025\/09\/02\/pentagon-ai-nuclear-war-00496884\">https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/magazine\/2025\/09\/02\/pentagon-ai-nuclear-war-00496884<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Almost all of the AI models showed a preference to escalate aggressively, use firepower indiscriminately and turn crises into shooting wars \u2014 even to the point of launching nuclear weapons. \u201cThe AI is always playing Curtis LeMay,\u201d says Schneider, referring to the notoriously nuke-happy Air Force general of the Cold War. \u201cIt\u2019s almost like the AI understands escalation, but not de-escalation. We don\u2019t really know why that is.\u201d&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/magazine\/2025\/09\/02\/pentagon-ai-nuclear-war-00496884<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[1129,1355,259,1005,158,1055],"class_list":["post-19405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-ai","tag-computers","tag-military","tag-technology","tag-war","tag-weapons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19405"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19405\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19406,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19405\/revisions\/19406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}