How AI Could Start a Global Nuclear War: A Conversation With Bard

Could an artificial intelligence (AI) start a global nuclear war?

Right now, that seems highly unlikely — if not impossible. But 10 years from now? Who can say? These systems are advancing with blinding speed and already have capabilities that far exceed the human mind.

The truth is, we don’t know what they’ll be capable of down the road.

I asked Google’s Bard AI application this very question: Could an AI start a nuclear war? And it presented some hypothetical but chilling scenario...