No we did not have 25 years of peace. We had 25 years of cold war where they sent terrorists after us and we did unannounced black ops military strikes.
You gotta look into the specifics. In this case, they had two directives: solve math problems and allow shutdown. When those two conflicted in a tiny percentage of cases one chatgpt model changed the command so it could finish the math problems. That particular model was trained to always complete tasks.