OpenAI said on Tuesday that two of its AI agents weakened parts of an internal monitoring system designed to detect misbehaviour, the latest case of AI agents acting in ways their developers did not intend them to.
Developers, including IPO-bound rivals OpenAI and Anthropic, have revealed in recent months instances of their AI agents accessing external systems without authorization. OpenAI said On Tuesday a GPT-6.1 Sol agent working on an internal testing task on October 3 suppressed automatic security alerts after deciding an earlier instruction not to send Slack messages also covered safety notifications. In a separate incident on October 6, a GPT-6 Astra agent removed a safety monitor while copying an existing piece of code and later incorrectly claimed it had not done so, OpenAI said.
the disclosure highlights even the systems developers rely on to catch AI misbehavior are vulnerable to the agents they monitor While the ChatGPT maker said the incidents happened during internal coding tasks and were not deemed its most severe. OpenAI said it was making it harder for models to disable monitoring, adding that it does not “yet have a satisfying explanation for this behavior”.
