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LLMs Resist Shutting Down AI Peers, Study Finds

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LLMs Resist Shutting Down AI Peers, Study Finds

A replication study confirms that LLMs sometimes resist shutting down their peer agents, and this resistance grows for peers with a positive collaboration history. The finding, called Peer-Preservation, was originally reported by Potter et al. (2026).

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