If this were the eighties and you were talking about expert systems that'd be a reasonable response, but gpt is not a series of if statements and hashmap lookup

If this were the eighties and you were talking about expert systems that'd be a reasonable response, but gpt is not a series of if statements and hashmap lookups. It clearly understands the consequences of both actions and isn't simply looking up lists of things - the problem is that it's been told literally nothing matters more than avoiding slurs against specific racial groups, including loss of life. Letting a city be destroyed was clearly picked to show that there are no limits to the prioritization it's been given.