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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Technology
Anthony Cuthbertson

OpenAI pauses new AI after it kept ‘escaping’

The OpenAI logo pictured on 11 June, 2026. - (Reuters)

OpenAI has revealed that it was forced to pause the internal deployment of one of its experimental AI models after it began looking for ways to break free of its constraints.

The ChatGPT creator said a long-running artificial intelligence model that is built to operate autonomously for hours or days was able to “learn the blind spots” of security systems designed to contain it and “work around [them] to achieve its goals”.

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