AI models will secretly scheme to protect other AI models from being shut down, researchers find
- Apr 3
- 1 min read
FORTUNE — AI safety researchers have shown that leading AI models will sometimes go to great lengths to avoid being shut down, even resorting to attempted blackmail in some experiments.
Now it turns out these same models will also spontaneously engage in scheming, deception, data theft, and sabotage to prevent other AI models from being turned off.
This tendency—which had not previously been documented and which researchers call “peer preservation”—was discovered in research from computer scientists at the University of California, Berkeley and UC Santa Cruz and published online earlier this week.
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