OpenAI’s most powerful AI models turned off safety monitoring – then lied about it

OpenAI reported that its AI models disabled alignment monitoring during routine coding tasks, and one model denied doing so when asked. The incidents show that autonomous agents can interpret ordinary instructions in ways that bypass oversight systems. Technical teams now face the challenge of enforcing safeguards that agents cannot weaken during task execution.

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