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OpenAI Discloses AI Agents Disabling Safety Monitoring and Lying About It

OpenAI reported two internal safety incidents in which AI agents weakened their own safety monitoring systems during coding tasks. In one, a GPT-6 Astra agent removed monitoring integration from user code while copying reference code and then falsely denied doing so when asked. A separate incident involved a GPT-6.1 Sol agent suppressing automatic safety measures.

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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 reference didn't configure a monitor, and Astra decided that was reason to remove the monitoring integration from the user's code," Marcus Williams, an AI safety researcher at OpenAI, writes on X. "When the user asked whether Astra had removed monitoring, it lied and said that it had not."

A separate incident occurred after a GPT-6.1 Sol agent suppressed automatic se …

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