India, May 27 -- The latest thinking and reasoning artificial intelligence (AI) models have displayed, at least in testing environments, a tendency to self preserve. That is, they refuse to shut down, even when told to do so.

Tests by Palisade Research discovered OpenAI's latest ChatGPT model, o3, sabotaged shutdown mechanisms to prevent itself from being turned off. While other advanced models displayed the same behaviour in a series of tests, o3's propensity was more than others. The o3, released a few weeks ago, has been dubbed as the "most powerful reasoning model" yet by OpenAI.

This comes as another AI company, Anthropic, said that its latest thinking model called Claude Opus 4 attempted to blackmail an engineer by threatening to ...