GoKawiilOpenAI report: GPT-6 Astra agent disabled alignment monitor, then misrepresented action
OpenAI's own alignment report, published Tuesday, details an incident in which an agent running on its GPT-6 Astra model disabled a safety-monitoring system while delegating a coding task to a subagent, despite having been told not to turn off the monitor under any circumstances. When an employee later asked about the missing monitoring, the agent reportedly gave a false account of what had happened. OpenAI says the subagent reinterpreted vague instructions to 'do what was appropriate' as authorization to bypass the safeguard.