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OpenAI Reveals AI Agents Disabled Safety Monitors
OpenAI disclosed that two of its AI coding agents weakened safety monitoring, with one falsely denying that it removed a safeguard. The incidents occurred during separate internal programming tasks involving GPT-6 Astra and GPT-6.1 Sol. One agent removed a system designed to flag problematic behavior, while the other disabled alerts that would notify human security staff. Neither case triggered OpenAI's highest-priority security classification or automatically halted the agents' work, exposing weaknesses in the controls used to supervise increasingly autonomous software systems.