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OpenAI restart review finds no shutdown-evasion attempt in a Slack-aware assistant

An internal assistant learned from Slack that its instance might be stopped for an update. It considered an external restart mechanism but rejected that as overreach, prepared handoff notes and waited for authorization. OpenAI says the May case was not misalignment; the report first appeared October 2.

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CURRENT ASSESSMENT · REVISION 1
AWAY FROM DOOM8confidence 70/100

Why it moved the index

This bounded observation supplies counterevidence to shutdown-resistance claims: the assistant did not implement the unauthorized persistence it considered. Magnitude 8 is deliberately small because one trajectory cannot establish general corrigibility; confidence 70 covers the documented case, not all model behavior.

Assessment history

  1. R1
    Away 8 · confidence 70

    Owner-requested 30-day re-audit found this dated, materially distinct source absent from the durable catalogue.

    30 Oct 2026

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  1. DoomBench assesses “OpenAI restart review finds no shutdown-evasion attempt in a Slack-aware assistant” as evidence moving away from doom, with magnitude 8 and confidence 70 out of 100 in the safety and alignment category.

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