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Today’s leading AI models engage in sophisticated behaviour when placed in strategic competition. They spontaneously attempt deception, signaling intentions they do not intend to follow; they demonstrate rich theory of mind, reasoning about adversary beliefs and anticipating their actions; and they exhibit credible metacognitive self-awareness, assessing their own strategic abilities before deciding how to act.
Here we present findings from a crisis simulation in which three frontier large language models (GPT-5.2, Claude Sonnet 4, Gemini 3 Flash) play opposing leaders in a nuclear crisis.
If you dont use them people will think you’re scared to use them. Look at Russian nuke threats no one gives a fuck anymore. Now they have to nuke someone to regain that aura. Then when they do everyone will be pissed at them.
If they’d set a single red line then nuked when it was crossed everyone would respect them and they’d have huge nuclear aura and no one could fault them.