I would point to "Ghandi threatening you with nuclear weapons" as a counterexample. Civ AI players were notoriously mercurial and their behavior is so bewilder

I would point to "Ghandi threatening you with nuclear weapons" as a counterexample. Civ AI players were notoriously mercurial and their behavior is so bewildering that people developed elaborate theories about software bugs that are completely false to explain them (the "Ghandi becomes violent late-game because of integer rollover" myth).