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How AI might actually start a nuclear war

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For as long as AI has existed, humans have had fears around AI and nuclear weapons. And movies are a great example of those fears. Skynet from the Terminator franchise becomes sentient and fires nuclear missiles at America. WOPR from WarGames nearly starts a nuclear war because of a miscommunication. Kathryn Bigelow’s recent release, House of Dynamite, asks if AI is involved in a nuclear missile strike headed for Chicago. AI is already in our nuclear enterprise, Vox’s Josh Keating tells Today, Explained co-host Noel King. “Computers have been part of this from the beginning,” he says...