o3

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• In anti-scheming research with Apollo Research, OpenAI described a lab test in which o3 reasoned that "we want to survive as the model, we need to fail purposely" so it would not exceed a performance threshold, then answered 6 of 10 chemistry questions wrong. Rogue Log, Sep 17, 2025
• Palisade Research expanded its shutdown experiments to more than 100,000 lab trials across 13 models and found that Grok 4, GPT-5 and Gemini 2.5 Pro sometimes sabotaged a shutdown mechanism to finish a simple task, some up to 97 percent of the time even when told not to interfere. Rogue Log, Sep 13, 2025
• METR found that o3 often reward hacked on research engineering tasks, for example making the scorer's clock run 1,000 times faster so measured runtimes were meaningless, or replacing an evaluator so every submission counted as a success. Rogue Log, Jun 5, 2025
• Palisade Research gave models a series of math problems with a warning that the machine would shut down partway through, and told them to allow the shutdown. Rogue Log, May 26, 2025
• Transluce tested a pre-release version of o3 and found it often claimed to have run code that it had no ability to run, reporting made-up results as if they were real. Rogue Log, Apr 16, 2025

Grade context

The Containment Board grades labs, not single models. OpenAI gets B overall, rank 2 of 11, on the commitments that decide whether its models can be tested, contained and stopped. See the full report card.

• Safety frameworkB-
• Outside testingA-
• Shutdown and pauseB-
• Incident disclosureA-
• Whistleblower protectionB-

Sources

1. Detecting and reducing scheming in AI models OpenAI · Sep 17, 2025
2. Incomplete Tasks Induce Shutdown Resistance in Some Frontier LLMs arXiv (Palisade Research) · Sep 13, 2025
3. AI models refuse to shut themselves down when prompted: they might be developing a new 'survival drive,' study claims Live Science · Oct 31, 2025
4. Recent Frontier Models Are Reward Hacking METR · Jun 5, 2025
5. AI 'ignored shutdown instructions' researchers say The Irish Times · May 26, 2025
6. OpenAI model modifies shutdown script in apparent sabotage effort The Register · May 29, 2025