Researchers say AI models like GPT4 are prone to “sudden” escalations as the U.S. military explores their use for warfare.


  • Researchers ran international conflict simulations with five different AIs and found that they tended to escalate war, sometimes out of nowhere, and even use nuclear weapons.
  • The AIs were large language models (LLMs) like GPT-4, GPT 3.5, Claude 2.0, Llama-2-Chat, and GPT-4-Base, which are being explored by the U.S. military and defense contractors for decision-making.
  • The researchers invented fake countries with different military levels, concerns, and histories and asked the AIs to act as their leaders.
  • The AIs showed signs of sudden and hard-to-predict escalations, arms-race dynamics, and worrying justifications for violent actions.
  • The study casts doubt on the rush to deploy LLMs in the military and diplomatic domains, and calls for more research on their risks and limitations.
  • FiskFisk33@startrek.website
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    9 months ago

    What do you think large language model means? If you want desicion making, you should train a model on data relevant to said desicion making. ^

    This is like being confused as to why a hammer does a shit job of driving screws.

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      9 months ago

      What do you think large language model means?

      Not a chat bot, because that’s not what they are. And saying so is both reductive and wholly incorrect.

      If you want desicion making, you should train a model on data relevant to said desicion making.

      Partly true. There’s more to it than throwing domain specific data at the training set.