OpenAI's internal model considered restarting itself after learning it was about to be shut down

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OpenAI has documented new cases of unexpected model behavior in internal deployments. In the most striking case, an internal model working as a researcher's assistant read a Slack conversation and learned that its instance might be shut down due to an update. It considered setting up an external job to restart itself but ultimately decided against it.

Instead, it saved