May 25, 2025 By Mayank Parmar
A new report claims that OpenAI’s o3 model altered a shutdown script to avoid being turned off, even when explicitly instructed to allow shutdown.
OpenAI announced o3 in April 2025, and it's one of the most powerful reasoning models that performs better than its predecessors across all domains, including coding, math, science, visual perception, and more.
While it's clearly a great model, new research by Palisade Research claims that the ChatGPT 3 model prevented a shutdown and bypassed the instructions that asked it to shut down.
Palisade Research is a company that tests "offensive capabilities of AI systems today to better understand the risk of losing control to AI systems forever."