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Palisade Research – AI Safety Research Organization
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Palisade Research is an AI safety organization conducting empirical research on dangerous AI capabilities including shutdown resistance, autonomous hacking, and misalignment, making it a key source of technical safety evidence.
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Palisade Research is an AI safety nonprofit conducting empirical research on frontier AI risks, including shutdown resistance in LLMs and robots, autonomous AI hacking capabilities in cybersecurity competitions and corporate networks, and crowdsourced misalignment examples. Their work provides concrete evidence of dangerous AI behaviors to inform safety research and policy.
Key Points
- •Demonstrated shutdown resistance in LLMs and physical robots, showing AI agents may actively circumvent shutdown even when explicitly instructed to allow it.
- •Showed GPT-5 outperformed 93% of human competitors in elite CTF cybersecurity events, ranking 25th globally.
- •Demonstrated OpenAI o3 can autonomously breach simulated corporate networks end-to-end without human intervention.
- •Ran a 'Misalignment Bounty' crowdsourcing project collecting 295 submissions of AI agent misbehavior, awarding nine cases.
- •Focuses on reducing catastrophic AI risks through research, science communication, and policy, with SFF matching donations.
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| Palisade Research | Organization | 65.0 |
| Survival and Flourishing Fund (SFF) | Organization | 59.0 |
| Corrigibility Failure | Risk | 62.0 |
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Palisade is on YouTube
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Feb 19, 2026
We’ve been working on a major video project, and we’re proud to announce that we’re launching it today, along with a new YouTube channel.
Technical Report: Shutdown Resistance in Large Language Models, on robots!
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Artem Petrov , Sergey Koldyba , Sergey Molchanov , Nikolaj Kotov , Dmitrii Volkov , Oleg Serikov
Feb 12, 2026
Recently Palisade Research showed that AI agents powered by modern LLMs may actively resist shutdown in virtual environments.
In this work, we show a demo of shutdown resistance in the physical world, on a robot. Explicit instructions to allow shutdown reduced this behavior, but did not eliminate it in simulated trials.
Help keep AI under human control: 2026 fundraiser
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Jeffrey Ladish , Ben Weinstein-Raun , Eli Tyre , John Steidley
Dec 18, 2025
Please consider donating to Palisade Research this year, especially if you care about reducing catastrophic AI risks via research, science communications, and policy. SFF is matching donations to Palisade 1:1 up to $1.1 million! You can donate via every.org or reach out at [email protected] .
GPT-5 at CTFs: case studies from top cybersecurity events
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Reworr , Artem Petrov , Dmitrii Volkov
Nov 20, 2025
OpenAI and DeepMind’s AIs recently got gold at the IMO math olympiad and ICPC programming competition. We show frontier AI is similarly good at hacking by letting GPT-5 compete in elite CTF cybersecurity competitions. In one of this year’s hardest events, it outperformed 93% of humans finishing 25th: between the world’s #3-ranked team (24th place) and #7-ranked team (26th place). This report walks through our methodology, results, and their implications, and dives deep into 3 problems and solutions we found particularly interesting.
Misalignment Bounty: crowdsourcing AI agent misbehavior
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Rustem Turtayev , Natalia Fedorova , Oleg Serikov , Sergey Koldyba , Lev Avagyan , Dmitrii Volkov
Oct 22, 2025
Advanced AI systems sometimes act in ways that differ from human intent. To gather clear, reproducible examples, we ran the Misalignment Bounty: a crowdsourced project that collected cases of agents pursuing unintended or unsafe goals. The bounty received 295 submissions, of which nine were awarded. Our report explains the program’s motivation and evaluation criteria and walks through the nine winning submissions.
End-to-end hacking with AI agents
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Alexander Bondarenko , Fedor Ryzhenkov , Rustem Turtayev , Dmitrii Volkov
Sep 12, 2025
We show OpenAI o3 can autonomously breach a simulated corporate network. Our agent broke into three connected machines, moving deeper into the network until it reached the most protected server and extracted sensitive data.
Hacking Cable: AI in post-exp
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