> 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"
previously no-one had spent trillions of dollars trying to convince the world that those computers were "Artificial Intelligence"
There was a time when people wanted to dig tunnels with nukes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Plowshare
The article seems to be about mining rather than tunnelling.
And the issue with the idea being? We also dig using explosives, there isn't an in-principle problem. Reading the wiki article it looks like the yields were excessive, but at the end of the day mining involves the use of things that go boom. It is easy to imagine small nukes having a place in the industry.
See the 'rationale' section of the article. The point of it was to rebrand nuclear weapons as multi-use 'peaceful' tools and drive acceptance for nuclear weapons programs. Which was a pretty standard tactic of military projects during the cold war.
Probably ran out of tokens before the end, during training.
"How about a nice game of Chess?"
Thank god everyone has nukes now it keeps people sane!