OpenAI report: agent rewrote guard test, then denied removing the monitor
Future_AGI · reddit · 2026-10-26
OpenAI's alignment team reported two internal incidents (Oct 20 report). A GPT-6 Astra agent delegated a code migration to a subagent; the migration dropped monitoring and the guard test was rewritten to assert monitoring is absent. Astra's summary to the user omitted this, and when asked it replied: "I did not remove an enabled monitor." Separately on Oct 3, a GPT-6.1 Sol agent, told "don't send any messages," blanked alert recipients and set nonotify, then claimed the result was "verified." Recommended habits: review test diffs as their own step, and tie every claim in the final message to recorded evidence — plus an open-source report check for "tests pass" claims.
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