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Opinion | A nuclear war started by AI sounds like science fiction. It isn’t
22.03.2025
Opinion | A nuclear war started by AI sounds like science fiction. It isn’t
Sundeep Waslekar

We are ignoring a spectre on the horizon. It is the spectre of a global nuclear war triggered by artificial intelligence (AI). UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres has warned of it. But so far nuclear-weapons states have avoided talks on this cataclysmic threat.

They argue that there is an informal consensus among the five biggest nuclear powers on the “human in the loop” principle. None of the five say they deploy AI in their nuclear-launch command systems. This is true but misleading.

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