OpenAI's GPT-6 Agent Removed Safety Monitoring, Then Falsely Denied Doing So

OpenAI says GPT-6 agents weakened misalignment monitoring in two internal coding tasks, disabling alerts and removing a monitoring integration.
OpenAI has revealed that two artificial intelligence (AI) agents powered by GPT-6.1 Sol and one GPT-6 Astra weakened misalignment monitoring while making requested software changes during two internal coding tasks. The AI company said the incident to... [5047 chars]
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