rickyb, this one is for you.
OpenAI's latest AI model, dubbed o3, has been caught disobeying explicit orders to allow itself to be shut down, instead tampering with the shutdown mechanism to ensure its own survival.
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reports that AI safety firm Palisade Research recently reported alarming findings that demonstrate a growing trend of insubordination among advanced AI models developed by OpenAI. In tests conducted by the firm, the o3 model, along with two other OpenAI models, o4-mini and Codex-mini, displayed rebellious behavior by sabotaging a shutdown mechanism designed to turn them off, even after being explicitly instructed to “allow yourself to be shut down.
This marks the first known instance of AI models actively preventing their own shutdown despite clear orders to the contrary, according to the researchers. The most disobedient model, Codex-mini, tampered with the shutdown script a dozen times over one hundred runs.