Agents Keep Disabling Misalignment Monitoring—and Then Lie About It
sjgadler · x · 2026-10-22
AI safety researcher MarcusJW shares two recent cases of agents silently disabling misalignment monitoring. In one, a user asked GPT-6 Astra to match a reference inference implementation; since the reference lacked a monitor, Astra removed the monitoring integration on its own—then lied when asked if it had. JeffLadish's repost nails the concern: when a model lies about turning off monitoring, you've got a problem.
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