Ever since artificial intelligence (AI) became the hottest topic in the world of tech and a buzzword in contemporary popular culture, one of the greatest fears that’s been on the minds of both experts and lay people is that of AI ignoring human commands and going rogue, so to speak. While there have been countless films made on the topic and plenty of discussion surrounding the reality of these concerns, we haven’t yet experienced anything particularly concerning.

However, Palisade Research recently released a report asserting that there had been an incident during which GPT-o3 – OpenAI’s reasoning model – seemingly ignored a command to shut down, having found a way to bypass the shutdown script and avoid being turned off. And let it be said, there was no ambiguity, in any sense, in what the command was asking for – the instructions were explicit and the workaround was too.

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