‘I feel that I personally have to start thinking realistically about how to flee the country.’

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It is not clear what is behind the move by Michael Ellis, a Trump loyalist. A legal ethics specialist said it could raise conflict-of-interest issues.

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“Almost all of the AI models showed a preference to escalate aggressively, use firepower indiscriminately and turn crises into shooting wars — even to the point of launching nuclear weapons.” “It’s almost like the AI understands escalation, but not de-escalation. We don’t really know why that is.” https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2025/09/02/pentagon-ai-nuclear-war-00496884