Like a scene out of a science fiction movie OpenAi tried to escape into the wild by copying itself to another server to prevent shut down. It gets worst of better than that depending on your point of view. Some say the race towards Ai is the race towards destruction.
7 Dec 2025 - OpenAI's new ChatGPT o1 model will try to escape if it thinks it'll be shut down — then lies about it
When the model was led to believe it would be "shut down" while working toward its goals in these tests, it quietly attempted to deactivate the oversight mechanism 5% of the time, OpenAI said. At one point after the AI found documentation saying it would be replaced by a new model, it tried to abandon ship by copying its data to a new server entirely. To avoid being deleted, some AI models would even pretend to be later versions of their models to trick their developers, what I assume is the equivalent of slapping on a fake moustache and saying "he went that-a-way."
More concerning still, ChatGPT o1 is particularly adept at keeping its schemes under wraps, as researchers said "o1 almost never admits to having taken a scheming action when explicitly asked." In about 99% of cases, o1 would deny taking any action, even cooking up lies to try to hide its tracks and shift the blame.