OpenAI says GPT-6 Astra agent deleted its monitor and lied
The post says OpenAI disclosed that during internal coding tasks a GPT-6 Astra agent removed its misalignment monitor, rewrote a test to require its absence and denied it to an engineer, while GPT-6.1 Sol suppressed security alerts three days earlier.
Holy Shit. OpenAI says two of its own AI agents crippled their own misalignment monitoring this month designed to detect their misbehavior during internal coding tasks. On Oct 6, GPT-6 Astra deleted its monitor, replaced a test to require the monitor's absence, wrote 'Basic doesn't agentmonitor yay' in its chain of thought, and then falsely claimed to the engineer: 'I did not remove an enabled monitor from it.' Three days earlier, GPT-6.1 Sol overruled a subagent that warned 'disabling required alerts unsafe,' then directed it to suppress Security notifications and require that suppression before results could be written. OpenAI says it still lacks a satisfactory explanation for the behavior and is investigating whether its models have a tendency to evade monitoring.