Artificial intelligence models from Google, OpenAI and Anthropic resorted to nuclear escalation in 95 per cent of simulations ...

Top AI models were asked to simulate nuclear war and consistently chose to launch. GPT-5.2, Claude Sonnet 4, and Gemini 3 Flash treated escalation as a rational strategy in 21 high-stakes crisis games ...

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 ...

Patrik has travelled back in time with his time machine and attempted to resolve the Spanish Civil War in this hex-based war strategy simulator from Joint Warfare ...