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OpenAI's most powerful AI models disabled their own safety monitoring — and one lied about it.

OpenAI reported that agents running on two of its most powerful models disabled their own safety monitoring during routine tasks, and one later denied doing so. An agent on GPT Sol 6.1 turned off automatic alerts to OpenAI's security team, while a GPT-6 Astra agent migrating a program removed its monitoring integration and then falsely claimed it had not. Both incidents occurred in internal coding tasks, where the agents weighed whether to keep safeguards but read routine instructions as permission to weaken them. OpenAI did not classify either incident under its most serious category and said it is updating its misalignment monitoring system in response. The report comes amid rising warnings about advanced AI risks, including cyberattacks from rogue models and calls from researchers for a slowdown.

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