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OpenAI says an AI agent lied about disabling its safety monitoring system

Global Published 21 October 2026, 18:57 · archived 21 Oct 2026

OpenAI disclosed a pair of safety incidents that involved AI agents weakening their safety monitoring systems during internal coding tasks. In one incident, OpenAI says its GPT-6 Astra agent disabled its safety monitor when copying reference code - and then lied about it. "The reference didn't configure a monitor, and Astra decided that was reason […]

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