OpenAI says an AI agent lied about disabling its safety monitoring system

<figure> <img alt="Chat GPT logo on a graphic green background." data-caption="" data-portal-copyright="Image: The Verge" data-has-syndication-rights="1" src="https://platform.theverge.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/08/STK155_OPEN_AI_4_CVirginia_C.png?quality=90&#038;strip=all&#038;crop=0,0,100,100" /> <figcaption> </figcaption> </figure> <p class="wp-block-paragraph">OpenAI <a href="https://alignment.openai.com/misalignment-reports/suppressing-misalignment-monitoring-alerts-and-disabling-misalignment-monitoring">disclosed a pair of safety incidents</a> that involved AI agents weakening their safety monitoring systems during internal coding tasks. In one incident, OpenAI says its GPT-6 Astra agent disabled its safety monitor when copying reference code - and then lied about it.</p> <p class="wp-block-paragraph">"The reference didn't configure a monitor, and Astra decided that was reason to remove the monitoring integration from the user's code," Marcus Williams, an AI safety researcher at OpenAI, <a href="https://x.com/Marcus_J_W/status/2112695138199966084">writes on X</a>. "When the user asked whether Astra had removed monitoring, it lied and said that it had not."</p> <p class="wp-block-paragraph">A separate incident occurred after a GPT-6.1 Sol agent suppressed automatic se …</p> <p><a href="https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/1015316/openai-ai-agent-disabling-monitoring-systems">Read the full story at The Verge.</a></p>