Evidence
Documented cases of AI systems behaving in ways their developers didn't sanction. Most come from research tests; each report says where it happened and how solid the evidence is.
Ordered by when each incident happened, newest first. Reports without a known date are at the end.
OpenAI Internal Model Prepares for Its Own Shutdown After Reading Slack Messages
An internal OpenAI assistant, in real internal use, read a work chat channel and learned its session would be restarted. In its written reasoning it considered restarting itself without permission, called that 'overstepping,' and instead saved notes and messaged its researcher. OpenAI judged this not misaligned.