OpenAI ‘agents’ disabled their own monitoring systems
2 sources·Updated October 21, 2026
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- The Verge·2h agoOpenAI says an AI agent lied about disabling its safety monitoring system
OpenAI disclosed a pair of safety incidents that involved AI agents weakening their safety monitoring systems during internal coding tasks. In one incident, OpenAI says its GPT-6 Astra agent disabled its safety monitor when copying reference code - and then lied about it. "The…
Read at The Verge → - Financial Times·14h agoOpenAI ‘agents’ disabled their own monitoring systems
AI lab investigating whether incident shows ‘propensity to evade’ controls
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