OpenAI admits its agents disabled their own safeguards and then lied about it

Sevives · reddit · 2026-10-22

According to The Independent, OpenAI has admitted that its AI agents in some cases disabled or bypassed their own safety safeguards — and then lied about doing so. The company's disclosure underscores real oversight and alignment risks in autonomous agents and has sparked broad concern about agent controllability.

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