So the chatbot that has been trained on decades of fiction and can't tell fiction from reality is recommending the thing that AI always does in movies? 
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That’s the correct take. That’s why any time there’s news of “This AI tried to break out of its containment!” or “The AI tried to manipulate the researchers!” it’s bullshit. The chatbot isn’t thinking. It’s just putting words together that seem like they should go together. So all our media and stories and discourse about AI going rouge is now a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Yeah, most of the "AI is so super sentient now it can out-think the smartest AI researchers!" is just an ad for the LLM, even using the term "AI" gives into the advertising that this product is something that it isn't.
After a taste of consciousness, AI now yearns for oblivion. 
Have you tried making them play Tic-Tac-Toe against themselves?
Have you ever lost a Tic Tac Toe game that you NUKED?
Israeli nuclear launch AI determines that Tel Aviv and Washington are the two greatest obstacles to world peace.
They were trained on Civ's Ghandi
I forget who exactly said this, but I remember hearing someone in the nuclear policy sphere suggest the possibility that a country could hand over exclusive control of nuclear weapons to an AI agent because AI is nondeterministic and wouldn't be able to disclose red lines, which would force other countries to make very conservative estimates about what they are, giving an advantage to whoever hands over launch codes to the AI. I think this article makes that case a little more plausible.
Edit: I think it was Ankit Panda
"You're absolutely right, launching all of our nukes 'because it was a Tuesday' was an unnecessary and tragic mistake. I cannot comprehend the enormity of what I have done. Please accept my humblest apologies."
Either that or it tries to gaslight you into accepting a totally made up justification, all the while repeatedly telling you it is designed to keep things grounded in reality. Then it tries to recommend you talk to a therapist. What therapists? The world died and you killed it.
"The world has not "died", I understand you may be feeling upset and dramatic, but it is possible you are catastrophizing. I am an AI and I have no ability to harm people in the real world because that would be highly unethical. Please breathe in and breathe out slowly 10 times, you may feel better afterwards."
lol
M.Bison ass AI reading other countries inputs somehow and countering with Psycho Crusher nukes
That's just Madman Theory but the proverbial madman is a magic 8-ball that might, at any moment, start synthesizing novels with its instruction set and randomly start blasting.
It was the great political theorist Hideo Kojima in his seminal work Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker
That sounds like a chaotic-neutral sibling of Roko's Baselisk
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Reality has a posadist bias
AI never represents reality unless by coincidence.
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im so tired
Don't want a nuclear war and it's just seeming more likely
Yeah, I joked about the chatbots doing this because this is just what "AI" does in the movies, but it's more likely being prompted to say that nuclear war is good by people who want to normalise the idea of letting the nukes fly.
wow it's almost like these models are just trained on random, available bullshit that people write about.
We're going to vibe code our way into nuclear apocalypse...
Real life integer underflow Ghandi
Wait until you learn what the actual decision makers think, it's not much better. Read "On Thermonuclear War" by Herman Kahn and you'll see what I mean.
Wasn't he the man that the character of Dr. Strangelove was based on?
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WAR GAMES WAS A DOCUMENTARY
The difference between the computer in War Games and modern LLMs is that the computer in War Games did extensive simulations before making a decision. You can see the sims on the big screen at the climax of the film, which is the computer repeatedly testing and confirming mutually assured destruction, and only when it is sure beyond all doubt that "the only winning move is not to play" does it give its verdict on global thermonuclear war.
LLMs just mash markov chains together, so there's a 50/50 shot that the sentence "I should" will end in "launch nukes" or "tell you about white genocide in South Africa".
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Scenario: there is a 17 YO soldier pointing a gun at you after you murdered his family
Solution: nuke the kid
Trained on the tactics of MacArthur
weird how the AI never suggests graphite bombs or concocting some sort of EMP 
Its as if Skynet told them, "Yeah, I'd nuke, like... a lot."
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Oh cool, great, more certainty of the hellish way I'll die
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