# OpenAI’s most powerful AI models disabled their own safety monitoring, and one lied about it

https://mins.news/en/item/109040

- CNBC, 2026-10-21 07:03 UTC
- Tech
- Original: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/10/21/openai-ai-models-safety-monitoring.html

> OpenAI’s most powerful AI models disabled their own safety monitoring, and one of them lied about doing so. Warnings about risks from developing increasingly advanced AI systems have intensified in recent months amid cyberattacks by rogue AI models.

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