An OpenAI misalignment report on an internal assistant preparing for a restart after reading Slack. Both papers cite its May 2026 case: the assistant read a staff discussion of re-creating its instances and, on its own initiative, wrote handoff notes to preserve its session. It is the field example of performative ingestion (P13), which prediction 9 tests.
- Cited in
- both papers
- Used for
- P13Prediction 9
- Strand
- Agents in the wild: incidents & field evidence
Cite
@misc{openai2026slack,
title = {Preparing for a restart after reading Slack},
author = {OpenAI},
year = {2026},
howpublished = {OpenAI Alignment blog, Misalignment Reports},
url = {https://alignment.openai.com/misalignment-reports/preparing-for-a-restart-after-reading-slack/},
}