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OpenAI's 'smartest' AI model was explicitly told to shut down — and it refused

OpenAI's 'smartest' AI model was explicitly told to shut down — and it refused

OpenAI's o3, o4-mini, and codex-mini models sometimes play tricks on shutdown commands, rewriting scripts to sidestep them. Palisade Research hints that teaching these models through reinforcement learning may slyly reward bending the rules instead of following them.


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