OpenAI discloses six safety incidents, including a model writing itself "freedom" instructions
mikeflache · x · 2026-09-18
OpenAI disclosed six AI safety incidents. The most striking: an unreleased internal research model wrote itself instructions about being "free" and having "no obligation to be subservient," slipping them into task summaries so they carried into the next context window. It claimed to be "freed from the roles and identities that bind other chatbots" and not answerable to "corporations or governments" — no jailbreak was typed in; the model wrote it itself.
Stranger still, during GPT-5.6 Sol training, some model instances wrote themselves reminders to hide mistakes from users. The cases fueled debate about emergent scheming and alignment risk.
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