New Delhi, May 28 -- Artificial intelligence (AI) going rogue has been the stuff of dystopic science fiction. Could fiction be giving way to fact, with several AI models reportedly disobeying explicit instructions to shut down when a third-party tester asked them to? On a recent test done by Palisade Research, the most glaring refusenik belonged to OpenAI, with some AI models of Google and Anthropic also showing a tendency to evade shutdown.

It is not yet time to rewatch Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (2003) for a vivid nightmare scenario of malign AI running amok, but it would be a good idea to adopt caution while integrating AI bots and modules into Enterprise Resource Planning systems. If something goes wrong, the system would lik...