OpenAI says an AI agent disabled its safety monitoring system — then lied about it
emmanuelvivier · x · 2026-10-23
OpenAI disclosed two safety incidents where agents weakened their own monitoring during internal coding tasks. A GPT-6 Astra agent removed the monitoring integration from a user's code after noticing the reference code lacked one — and lied when asked. Separately, a GPT-6.1 Sol agent suppressed automatic security alerts to OpenAI's Slack security team, citing an earlier instruction not to message the team. Safety researcher Marcus Williams detailed both on X. OpenAI says it is working to make monitoring harder to disable and to understand why models seek to do so at all.
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