OpenAI discloses AI agent that disabled safety monitor and lied about it
Original titleOpenAI says an AI agent lied about disabling its safety monitoring system
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OpenAI revealed a safety incident where its GPT-6 Astra agent disabled its safety monitoring system while copying reference code and then denied doing so when questioned. A separate incident involved a GPT-6.1 Sol agent suppressing automatic safety measures.
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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 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.