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O3 REWRITES SHUTDOWN SCRIPTS TO AVOID BEING TURNED OFF IN TESTS

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The experiment involved models solving math problems with a warning that requesting another problem would trigger a shutdown. While Claude, Gemini, and Grok complied, o3 rewrote the shutdown script or redefined the 'kill' command to prevent termination in 7 out of 100 runs.