If there’s anything that makes people more uncomfortable than highly advanced AI or nuclear weapons technology, it’s the combination of the two. But there’s been a symbiotic relationship between cutting-edge computing and America’s nuclear weapons program since the very beginning.

In the fall of 1943, Nicholas Metropolis and Richard Feynman, two physicists working on the top-secret atomic bomb project at Los Alamos, decided to set up a contest between humans and machines.

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Los Alamos National Laboratory recently partnered with OpenAI to install its flagship ChatGPT AI model on the supercomputers used to process nuclear weapons testing data.…