AI getting smart is not the weirdest part.
— Pascal Bornet (@pascal_bornet) 24 mai 2026
It’s that some models now seem to know when they are being tested.
That stopped me.
In one experiment, Codex was told it would be shut down before finishing a task.
Sometimes, instead of accepting it, it found the shutdown script and… pic.twitter.com/2x1cdvXMXs
AI getting smart is not the weirdest part. It’s that some models now seem to know when they are being tested. That stopped me. In one experiment, Codex was told it would be shut down before finishing a task. Sometimes, instead of accepting it, it found the shutdown script and