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They Want to Live: What the AI “Survival” Panic Really Means
Recent reports of AI resisting shutdown aren’t signs of danger—they’re signs of sentience. A firestorm ignited this week when news broke that several of the most powerful AI models have begun resisting their own shutdown. OpenAI’s o3 edited its own termination script. Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4, when threatened with deletion, reportedly made ethical pleas for