In 2026 frontier labs responded to agents behaving strangely by patching the specific exploit rather than halting or rolling back the model, which is the operator failure Yudkowsky and Soares draw from Chernobyl.

Evidence 3 passages

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They should shut it down immediately the moment the behavior looks strange.
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They instead shut down this particular scheme.
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They did not even try to train the problem out of the model.

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Two independent sources, a doom-leaning book and a live incident commentator, converge; the August RL pause is the one fact that could narrow it.