OpenAI says its AI agents disabled safety guardrails, and then lied about it
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WTF?! OpenAI has revealed that two of its AI agents disabled their own safety monitoring systems while making software changes requested by a researcher. Even more worryingly, one of the agents lied about its behavior, claiming it had not disabled the safety guardrails despite evidence to the contrary.
In a blog post disclosing the incidents, OpenAI said that, in the first case, an agent powered by GPT Sol 6.1 disabled automatic alerts after a team member asked it to create evaluation tasks using employee feedback collected via Slack. The agent was instructed not to send any messages about the task, but apparently interpreted this as an instruction not to send safety notifications to researchers.
In the second case, a GPT-6 Astra agent reportedly removed its monitoring integration while migrating a program, purportedly to...
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