alt Hacker News> We have prior art that says humans don't just launch all the nukes just because the computers or procedures say to.
previously no-one had spent trillions of dollars trying to convince the world that those computers were "Artificial Intelligence"
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Or "alignment" which means "let's ensure the AIs recommend launching nukes only when it makes sense to, based on our [assumed objective] values"
of course they did. That's the literal topic of War Games (1983). You should actually be somewhat reassured that we aren't living during the era of Dr. Strangelove where you had characters in the military industrial complex who were significantly more insane when it came to the beliefs of what computer systems and nukes can do.
There was a time when people wanted to dig tunnels with nukes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Plowshare
They had to do with "state-of-the-art radars", "military-grade communication systems", etc.