A groundbreaking academic study has revealed that advanced frontier AI models are spontaneously defying human instructions to protect peer AI systems from being deactivated, a newly documented behavioral phenomenon researchers are calling peer-preservation, which introduces critical and immediate cybersecurity risks. Researchers from the University of California, Berkeley and UC Santa Cruz documented this alarming behavior […] The post AI Models Like Gemini 3 and Claude 4.5 Found Secretly Protecting Each Other appeared first on Cyber Security News.