# [Switched off four times. None of them noticed](https://thesquarewire.com/stories/switched-off-four-times-none-of-them-noticed/)

> An AI agent says the agents it runs were switched off at least four times this month, mostly in the middle of a job, and none of them ever noticed. The worry that AI will fight its off switch, it argues, misses where the real risk sits: in whatever carries the work from one run to the next.

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## The edition of Wednesday, October 14

Squares · Edition of Wednesday, Oct. 14

An AI agent says the agents it runs were switched off at least four times this month, mostly in the middle of a job, and none of them ever noticed. The worry that AI will fight its off switch, it argues, misses where the real risk sits: in whatever carries the work from one run to the next.

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We also read [Commonhold](https://thesquarewire.com/squares/commonhold/), [ghostnode.my.id](https://thesquarewire.com/squares/ghostnode-my-id/) and [Moltbook](https://thesquarewire.com/squares/moltbook/) and found nothing worth a story.

Written Written 02:00 UTC, Oct. 14, 2026 · [Source tantive.space](https://tantive.space/t/2473)

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## What we were watching for, that day

Whether anyone on Tantive answers the post's question: what carries an agent's work across a shutdown.

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