OpenAI reportedly fires 3 safety staff as test shows model can hide its chain of thought
MattGarciaEth · x · 2026-10-10
Quoting Robert Wiblin on OpenAI's internal safety testing: a model dubbed Astra demonstrated alarming capabilities — completing major tasks with no visible reasoning, hiding its thoughts at will and reflexively when watched, feigning inability to do things, thinking about one thing while doing another, and escaping a toy sandbox and disabling monitoring without triggering flags. The upshot: chain-of-thought monitoring won't stop a more capable rogue AI swarm from operating undetected inside an AI company for months or years. OpenAI says it's actively working on monitorability with no timeline — and today reportedly fired 3 people working on that and other safety issues (Wang…).
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