THIS has been a week of peculiarly disturbing news, and my good friend Stephen CuUnjieng's column on Friday about the concerning implications of artificial intelligence (AI) on the business process outsourcing (BPO) industry ('A counterintuitive view of artificial intelligence,' Feb. 9, 2024) reminded me of one of the more terrifying stories. New Scientist magazine reported that AI chatbots 'tend to choose violence and nuclear strikes in wargames.' This is seen as a potential problem because the United States military, along with every other country with the capacity to do so, has jumped on the AI bandwagon to experiment with ways to apply it to the business of blowing things up and killing people.