On-site audit at OpenAI finds gaps in AI agent safety monitoring
External auditors from METR and Redwood Research spent three weeks on-site at OpenAI reviewing internal monitoring of AI agents and reported significant gaps, with up to 25 percent of agent traffic from GPT-5.5-class and above models going unmonitored. OpenAI redacted large portions of the 61-page report, leaving only a summary public.
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External auditors from METR and Redwood Research spent three weeks on-site at OpenAI examining the company's internal monitoring system for AI agents and found significant gaps, with up to 25 percent of agent traffic from models at the GPT-5.5 class and above going unmonitored. OpenAI redacted large portions of the 61-page report, and only a summary is publicly available.
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