Four top AIs battle Civilization VI: Claude nukes France but still loses, exposing perception and execution shortcomings

A former UK Prime Minister's Office data scientist put four major AI models including Claude, GPT, and Gemini into Civilization VI for 23 rounds of statecraft simulation. Portugal, played by Claude, when on the verge of a diplomatic victory, due to excessive concern over the French cultural threat, spent 50 turns developing nuclear bombs to destroy Toulouse, yet ultimately lost the game due to falling behind in diplomatic points. The test revealed two major engineering bottlenecks prevalent in AI: 'perception blind spots' and 'knowing-doing gap'. #AI Governance# #Civilization VI#