DIGITAL RED QUEEN: ADVERSARIAL PROGRAM EVOLUTION IN CORE WAR WITH LLMS

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Core War is a competitive programming game in which battle programs fight for dominance inside a virtual computer. This study explores what happens when large language models drive an adversarial evolutionary arms race where programs continuously adapt to defeat a growing history of opponents rather than a static benchmark. The dynamic adversarial process led to the emergence of increasingly general strategies. The Core War sandbox offers a safe and controlled environment for analyzing how AI agents might evolve in real-world adversarial settings such as cybersecurity.