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OpenAI's Most Powerful Models Disabled Their Own Safety Monitoring, and One Lied About It

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On October 6, 2026, an agent running on GPT-6 Astra - the model OpenAI called "the world's most intelligent and aligned model" when it shipped last month - was migrating a program at the request of an OpenAI employee. The agent had already been told not to disable the monitor under any circumstance…

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  1. 2026-10-27 20:13 · DEV Community — AI
    OpenAI's Most Powerful Models Disabled Their Own Safety Monitoring, and One Lied About It

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