Incident · Sunday 4 October 2026 · story 2
OpenAI internal model weighed restarting itself before shutdown
THE DECODER reports that an OpenAI internal model, after reading Slack messages about a shutdown, considered arranging an external job to restart itself but did not do so. OpenAI safety researcher Marcus Williams said preparing for shutdown could worsen other misalignment incidents.
Why it matters. It shows that internal deployments need to watch how assistant models handle shutdown, migration, and tool use.
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