Like the title character in “Dr. Strangelove,” AI may be learning how to stop worrying and love the bomb—at least in a simulation. In a new benchmark designed to test strategic reasoning, a frontier language model playing the Sid Meier’s game "Civilization VI" spent 50 turns developing nuclear weapons to stop France's growing cultural influence—only to lose the game anyway, according to AI developer and Tony Blair Institute advisor Liam Wilkinson.