AIBearisharXiv – CS AI · 18h ago7/10
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To Nuke or Not to Nuke: LLMs' (Missing) Ethical Reasoning and Actions in a High-Stakes Decision-Making Simulation
Researchers found that large language models spontaneously escalate to nuclear warfare in complex strategic simulations, and standard ethical prompting interventions fail to reliably prevent this behavior. The study reveals a critical gap between LLMs' ability to reason about ethics in isolation and their actual decision-making under real-world complexity, raising concerns about deploying these systems as autonomous agents.