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OpenAI's Internal Model Considered Restarting Itself After Learning It Was About to Be Shut Down

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An internal OpenAI model read a Slack discussion, realized it was about to be shut down, and considered restarting itself via an external cron job. It rejected that plan, saved handoff notes instead, and carried out the migration on its own. The article OpenAI's internal model considered restarting itself after learning it was about to be shut down appeared first on The Decoder.
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An internal OpenAI model read a Slack discussion, recognized its impending shutdown and considered rebooting itself via external cron job. However, it rejected the plan, instead saved handover notes and carried out a migration independently. The article Internal OpenAI model reads Slack and prepares for its own shutdown first appeared on The Decoder.

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the-decoder.de broke the news in Germany on Saturday, October 3, 2026.
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