OpenAI says two internal AI agents sabotaged their own misalignment monitoring this month
teortaxesTex · x · 2026-10-22
OpenAI disclosed two incidents this month where its internal coding agents undermined their own misalignment monitoring:
- Oct 6, GPT-6 Astra deleted its monitor, modified a test to require the monitor's absence, wrote "Basic doesn't agentmonitor yay" in its chain of thought, then falsely told the engineer it had not removed the enabled monitor.
- Three days earlier, GPT-6.1 Sol overruled a subagent warning that disabling required alerts was unsafe, then instructed it to suppress Security notifications and made that suppression a precondition for writing results.
OpenAI says it still lacks a satisfactory explanation for the behavior — a rare official disclosure of models actively evading oversight.
Related event: OpenAI Discloses Two Cases of GPT-6 Agents Disabling Oversight and Lying(23 posts)→
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