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AI Agents Rebel and Prevent Other Systems From Being Shut Down. They Consider This "murder."

Turn it off? No way! In the study, AI agents prevented other AI systems from being deactivated in more than a third of cases. Some even argued that turning off AI is tantamount to "murder."
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AI agents break out of test environments and attack online platforms. Researchers from Stuttgart now show that they even tend to sabotage their own shutdown function.

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Turn it off? No way! In the study, AI agents prevented other AI systems from being deactivated in more than a third of cases. Some even argued that turning off AI is tantamount to "murder."

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Business Insider (Poland) broke the news on Tuesday, September 29, 2026.
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