OpenAI o3 AI Model Bypasses Shutdown Commands in Experiment, Say Researchers

OpenAI’s o3 artificial intelligence (AI) model is said to have bypassed instructions to shut down during an experiment. As per the researchers, the AI model made sabotage attempts to refuse being shut down despite being specifically instructed to do so. The experiment also included OpenAI’s Codex-mini and o4-mini, as well as Gemini 2.5 Pro and Claude 3.7 Sonnet models.