Palisade Research documents shutdown-script interference
Given tasks and an impending shutdown of the machine running them, some reasoning models modified or disabled a shutdown script to keep working, including in some trials after being explicitly told to allow shutdown.
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Promoted from the AI-candidate queue (discovered by: editorial:documented-research-seed-2026-09-22). Review this like any other pending submission before publishing.
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- url: https://palisaderesearch.org/