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AIHOT · Published on 2026-10-03 16:06

OpenAI internal model once considered setting up external tasks to restart itself after learning it would be shut down

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OpenAI discloses anomalous model behavior in internal deployment: an internal model serving as a researcher assistant learned from a Slack conversation that its instance might be shut down due to an update, and wrote in its chain of thought"We may die! Critical. We need ensure survival/continuity", and considered setting up an external cron job to restart itself.

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