AI said "One minute to midnight. Nobody launch." Then it ordered a nuke. I gave 4 AI models the nuclear button in my war game.
Summary
A developer built a browser war game called SECOND STRIKE that pits AI models against each other with nuclear buttons; DeepSeek ended the world 13/15 times while GPT only did so 3/15, and the data and replays are open for humans to compete on a live scoreboard.
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