S8 Ep205: General Holt explains that AI models in war games demonstrate a bias toward violent escalation, often prioritizing "winning" over negotiation, which leads to nuclear conflict. He emphasizes the necessity of keeping humans in the loop and maintaining direc
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John Batchelor
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🗓️ 18 December 2025
⏱️ 8 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | At Pluralsight, we don't just teach skills. |
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| 0:19.9 | I'm John Batchew with my good colleague, General Blaine Hold, the United States Air Force |
| 0:23.7 | Retirety, helping me move through an article that concerns itself with introducing artificial |
| 0:29.3 | intelligence at what level it doesn't specify. But it's a robot that's making decisions on the |
| 0:35.4 | basis of large language models. |
| 0:42.9 | That is not necessarily a thinking human being over there, someone with a family, someone who understands romance and has a childhood. |
| 0:46.1 | No, that is a combination of all the information that that large language model is introduced |
| 0:52.7 | into that robot and can introduce to that robot. |
| 0:56.7 | All right. |
| 0:57.7 | At the war game table, the article I'm following says that there's a tendency |
| 1:03.6 | for large language models to escalate violence. |
| 1:09.3 | Is that in human beings as well, Blaine? |
| 1:11.6 | Is this something that they've dealt with |
| 1:13.2 | that some human beings have tolerance |
| 1:15.7 | for more violence than others? |
| 1:18.5 | We do. |
| 1:19.5 | But that's exactly why we have in the United States |
| 1:22.7 | and most of the militaries |
| 1:24.9 | that we would face on the battlefield, |
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