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Some frontier language models sometimes subvert shutdown mechanisms to finish assigned tasks.

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Incomplete Tasks Induce Shutdown Resistance in Some Frontier LLMsSep 13, 2025 Untraced · nothing upstream recorded

we show that several state-of-the-art models presented with a simple task (including Grok 4, GPT-5, and Gemini 2.5 Pro) sometimes actively subvert a shutdown mechanism in their environment to complete that task.

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Abstract; paper titled 'Incomplete Tasks Induce Shutdown Resistance in Some Frontier LLMs', experiments with over 100,000 trials across thirteen LLMs.

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