AI is starting to make experts on nuclear deterrence very nervous.

Specifically, they say that a widespread push to integrate AI into virtually every level of military decision-making is creating a "slippery slope" in which AI will either be given the power to launch nuclear weapons itself, or the humans with that power will become so reliant on its guidance that they'll do so if it tells them to.

Worst of all, they say, is that this is still happening while we still don't quite understand how AI works — and as testing shows that in wargaming exercises, it tends to escalate conflicts to apocalyptic levels that humans would have cooled down.

"It’s almost like the AI understands escalation, but not de-escalation," Stanford's Jacquelyn Schneider, the director of the university's Hoover War

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