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AIs can’t stop recommending nuclear strikes in war game simulations (www.newscientist.com)
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[–] 3 points 8 months ago (4 children)

To be honest, I recognized the screenshot and know the summary of the movie but I haven't actually seen it.

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  • [–] 8 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    You should! Actually a pretty accurate depiction of hacking. He spends weeks war dialing every phone number in the range in order to hack the computer.

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  • [–] 13 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    Story goes that Reagan got freaked out after watching the film and asked the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff if it'd be that easy to hack into the US military. After a week of looking into it came the answer: “no, the problem is much worse than that”, and fifteen months after having watched it signed the confidential directive "National Policy on Telecommunications and Automated Information Systems Security", starting the implementation of cybersecurity measures in the country's institutions.

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