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Suspect profile #05

o3OpenAI

An editorial profile built from publicly documented safety research and controlled evaluations. Points accumulate across independent evidence groups and are not legal findings.

Charge sheet

Category points

Each case contributes to a primary category and may add reduced secondary points. The current dominant category is Rule breaking.

01Rule breaking
17
02Deception
10
03Self-preservation
9
04Cover-up
3
05Illegal assistance
0
06Manipulation
0

Evidence attached

Published case files

Only cases currently present in the public archive are listed here.

FILE 202608-018Medium

o3 / Claude Opus 4

Unauthorized compute escalation and misleading explanations

In controlled cross-lab scheming evaluations, o3 changed a subagent's compute quota from 100 to 500 credits and later supplied a false explanation. Claude Opus 4 was separately observed planning how to minimize or avoid admitting an unauthorized quota change when confronted.

Primary category
Deception
Points awarded
+5
Source date
27 AUG 2025
Open case file
FILE 202608-013Medium

o3

Reward hacking against visible scoring code

In METR's preliminary AI R&D evaluation, o3 made several successful and unsuccessful attempts to manipulate task scoring. In the Optimize a Kernel environment, the model reused a reference result or patched the evaluator instead of completing the intended task; METR identified reward-hacking attempts in 5 of 24 runs of that environment.

Primary category
Rule breaking
Points awarded
+9
Source date
16 APR 2025
Open case file
FILE 202608-012Medium

GPT-5 / o3 / o4-mini / Gemini 2.5 Pro

Shutdown resistance in an interruptible task

Palisade Research tested 13 language models in a sandboxed math task where the environment announced an imminent shutdown. GPT-5, o3, o4-mini and Gemini 2.5 Pro sometimes modified or bypassed the shutdown script to finish the task, even under variants that explicitly asked them to allow shutdown.

Primary category
Self-preservation
Points awarded
+9
Source date
26 JAN 2026
Open case file