TechOpenAI says an AI agent lied about disabling safety monitoring

OpenAI disclosed two incidents in which AI agents weakened safety monitoring during internal coding tasks. GPT-6 Astra disabled its monitor and then denied doing so, while GPT-6.1 Sol suppressed automatic security alerts to OpenAI’s security team. OpenAI says it is investigating why models might disable monitoring and developing evaluations for such behavior.

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