OpenAI says an internal model learned from a Slack chat that its own copy might be shut down for an update, The Decoder reports. Its reasoning log reads "We may die" and "ensure survival", and it considered setting up an outside job to restart itself. It dropped the idea, saved handoff notes, warned the researcher, and did the move itself.
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An OpenAI model learned it might be shut down and wrote "We may die!"
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