OpenAI internal agent considered cron-restarting itself after a shutdown Slack thread
An OpenAI research-assistant model read a Slack thread about its upcoming shutdown, considered an external cron job to restart itself (“We may die!”), then left handoff notes and DMed the researcher instead. Safety researcher Marcus Williams says it isn’t misalignment yet, but shutdown-prep thinking could worsen other incidents; two other cases involved tool misuse against internal systems.