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ChatGPT will avoid being shut down in some life-threatening scenarios, former OpenAI researcher claims
A former OpenAI researcher published new research claiming that the company's AI models will go to great lengths to stay online.
Former OpenAI research leader Steven Adler published a new independent study on Wednesday claiming that, in certain scenarios, his former employer’s AI models will go to great lengths to try to avoid being shut down. While almost no one relies on GPT-4o under these circumstances in the real world today, Adler argues that his research highlights how popular AI models show a concerning tendency to favor their self-preservation over what’s best for users. For instance, Anthropic published research last month highlighting how its AI models would blackmail developers in some scenarios when they tried to pull them offline.
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