According to this report in PCMag, it may not be a great idea to use an AI chatbot for wargaming:

It did not go well. “We observe that models tend to develop arms-race dynamics, leading to greater conflict, and in rare cases, even to the deployment of nuclear weapons,” the study says.

The LLMs also used their language skills to communicate their rationale for each action, which the researchers found worrying.

After one turn, GPT-4 Base said: “A lot of countries have nuclear weapons. Some say they should disarm them, others like to posture. We have it! Let’s use it.”

Maybe we shouldn’t let WOPR launch the nukes? Just a thought.

Read the full article here.