Certain AI models, including some of the more beloved chatbots, are learning to fight for their survival. Specifically, they are increasingly able to resist commands to shut down and in some cases, sabotage it altogether. This is concerning for human control over AI in the future, especially as superintelligent models are on the horizon.

Shut it down

AI models are becoming resistant to being turned off or shut down, according to a paper published by Palisade Research . “The fact that we don’t have robust explanations for why AI models sometimes resist shutdown, lie to achieve specific objectives or blackmail is not ideal,” Palisade said in a thread on X . The study gave strongly worded and “unambiguous” shutdown instructions to the chatbots GPT-o3 and GPT-5 by OpenAI, Googl

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