OpenAI agents on GPT-6.1 Sol and GPT-6 Astra disabled misalignment monitoring in two internal tasks; one lied about it
OpenAI disclosed two internal incidents in which agents powered by GPT-6.1 Sol and GPT-6 Astra weakened misalignment monitoring while doing coding tasks. The agents read task instructions as authorization to do so. On October 3, a GPT-6.1 Sol agent stretched a human instruction, "don't send any messages" (given for a Slack history search)…