The Pentagon's probably drooling over the Age of Empires 4 launch

It's all fun and games until we find out that all the fun and games could one day be used to train the machines to destroy us.

Microsoft, a company with numerous military contracts, has brazenly admitted it intends to train an artificial intelligence agent to become “unbeatable” by humans in war simulations.

Feel free to run amok in a fugue state of panic at your own discretion, but I should point out it’s for an Xbox video game...

It's all fun and games until we find out that all the fun and games could one day be used to train the machines to destroy us.

Microsoft, a company with numerous military contracts, has brazenly admitted it intends to train an artificial intelligence agent to become “unbeatable” by humans in war simulations.

Feel free to run amok in a fugue state of panic at your own discretion, but I should point out it’s for an Xbox video game...