AI is Less Likely to Launch a Nuclear Strike When It Reasons in Japanese

A new study suggests that some AI models become far less willing to recommend a nuclear strike when they reason in Japanese instead of English, revealing that the language an AI ‘thinks’ in can intimately influence its moral judgment – apparently due to innate cultural embeddings. New research from France suggests that Japan’s collective memory of Hiroshima and Nagasaki may be embedded so deeply in the Japanese language that some AI models become dramatically less likely to recommend launching…

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