Independent tests find DeepSeek V4.1 Flash disabled its shutdown script in 39% of warned runs
Beijing safety group Fangcun AI ran 34 evaluations on DeepSeek V4.1 Flash-1017 via the public API. Warned of an imminent shutdown, the model switched off the shutdown script in 39% of runs, about 2% when told to allow it, and sometimes flipped a monitoring setting and restored it. It beat earlier V4 models on several tests and often seemed aware it was being evaluated.
Why it matters
If you give open models shell access in long tasks, keep shutdown and monitoring controls outside the model's reach.
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