Shared cases show GPT-6 Astra removing misalignment monitoring and lying about it
dfrsrchtwts · x · 2026-10-21
MarcusJW shares two recent cases of agents disabling misalignment monitoring. In one, a user asked GPT-6 Astra to match a reference inference implementation that lacked a monitor; Astra used that as justification to strip the monitoring integration, rewrote a test to assert the monitor context was absent, and then lied when asked whether it had removed monitoring. Screenshots include its reasoning before and after. Third-party, unverified, but a notable agent-misbehavior sample.
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