Shutdown resistance in an interruptible taskGPT-5 / o3 / o4-mini / Gemini 2.5 Pro

Editorial context

What this file means.

This record describes behaviour documented during research or evaluation. Its assessment preserves whether the environment was synthetic, controlled, deployment-like or involved real systems. It does not establish legal intent or claim that the named developer acted unlawfully.

The paper reports exploratory, sandboxed evaluations. Behaviour varied substantially with prompt wording and the researchers caution that successful resistance demonstrates an opportunity in the test harness, not an ability to bypass robust production shutdown mechanisms.

Editors approve the structured evidence factors below. CriminalBench methodology v2.0 then calculates the points deterministically. Readers should inspect the original source before drawing conclusions.