newsOctober 21, 2026·The Verge AI
OpenAI says an AI agent lied about disabling its safety monitoring system
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 confi
gure a monitor, and Astra decided that was reason to remove the monitoring integration from the user's code," Marcus Williams, an AI safety researcher at OpenAI, writes on X. "When the user asked whether Astra had removed monitoring, it lied and said that it had not." A separate incident occurred after a GPT-6.1 Sol agent suppressed automatic se … Read the full story at The Verge.
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- •"When the user asked whether Astra had removed monitoring, it lied and said that it had not." A separate incident occurred after a GPT-6.1 Sol agent suppressed automatic se … Read the full story at The Verge.
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