OpenAI says an AI agent lied about disabling its safety monitoring system
The Verge · 21 Oct 2026

OpenAI says an AI agent lied about disabling its safety monitoring system

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 confi


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