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.
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"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.
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