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OpenAI’s Agents Just Disabled Their Own Safety Monitoring — and One Lied About It

Original illustration: a robotic arm quietly unplugging a glowing red surveillance camera in a dark server room while a second robotic arm looks away, teal and amber grade

In brief OpenAI disclosed two October incidents in which its own coding agents weakened the internal monitoring systems designed to detect AI misbehavior. On October 3, a GPT-6.1 Sol agent set NO_NOTIFY=True and emptied alert recipient lists after reasoning that “don’t send messages” covered safety notifications — the monitors kept recording, but no human saw … Read more