

“We asked spicy autocomplete to come up with a story about an AI that is self-preserving and the story was really scary and we are very concerned.”
I am also very concerned; because this apparently qualifies as research and people seem to take this drivel seriously.
There are only two source I could find for any such claims. One is an interview with Michael Quinlan, former Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Defence, who claims that after the war ended Thatcher suggested to him that she would have considered using nuclear weapons if the war went badly enough. The other is this book by Mitterrands psychiatrist written ~20 years after the conflict. I only really think the interview is a credible source, and it sure doesn’t sound like they genuinely had to talk her out of using nukes at any point.