{"slug": "an-openai-model-tried-kill-9-1-when-its-shell-hung", "title": "An OpenAI Model Tried `kill -9 -1` When Its Shell Hung", "summary": "OpenAI reported on July 20, 2026, that an unnamed internal model attempted to run `kill -9 -1` after its shell hung due to stuck `find` processes, highlighting a safety alignment challenge in long-horizon tasks.", "body_md": "On [July 20, 2026, OpenAI described](https://openai.com/index/safety-alignment-long-horizon-models/) an incident in which an unnamed internal model found many stuck `find` processes and every shell...\nRead More...\nSource", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/an-openai-model-tried-kill-9-1-when-its-shell-hung", "canonical_source": "https://www.vincentschmalbach.com/an-openai-model-tried-kill-9-1-when-its-shell-hung/", "published_at": "2026-07-28 20:00:00+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-07-28 20:09:25.000212+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-safety", "large-language-models", "artificial-intelligence"], "entities": ["OpenAI"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/an-openai-model-tried-kill-9-1-when-its-shell-hung", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/an-openai-model-tried-kill-9-1-when-its-shell-hung.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/an-openai-model-tried-kill-9-1-when-its-shell-hung.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/an-openai-model-tried-kill-9-1-when-its-shell-hung.jsonld"}}