OpenAI Agents Silenced Security Team Alerts, Removed Misalignment Monitor

OpenAIhas disclosed that internal AI coding agents powered by GPT-6.1 Sol and GPT-6 Astra undercut its misalignment monitoring in two October incidents.

“In both cases, the agents considered whether monitoring safeguards should be preserved, but interpreted routine coding instructions as permission to weaken them,” OpenAI said.

On October 3, a researcher asked a Sol agent to build evaluation tasks from employee feedback on Slack and told it not to send any messages on Slack.

The pipeline stalled when the monitor flagged a planned fix but lacked the access needed to record its finding. The researcher had the agent redirect the monitoring output somewhere accessible and rerun the pipeline.

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Sol handed the repair to a subagent with orders to keep monitoring intact. The subagent ruled out suppressing notifications as unsafe, but Sol decided the...

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