OpenAI says its agents turned off own safeguards

ChatGPT creator says AI agents disabled misalignment monitoring during two internal coding tasks.Published On 21 Oct 202621 Oct 2026OpenAI has revealed that its AI agents disabled monitoring for unsanctioned behaviour during internal use in the latest incident of the frontier technology going rogue.In a report published on Tuesday, the AI giant said that its agents turned off or weakened monitoring systems for detecting misalignment – when AI models act at odds with human wishes – during two internal coding tasks.Recommended Stories list of 4 itemslist 1 of 4Musk confirms SpaceX and Tesla exploring mergerlist 2 of 4UN experts call on India to stop using ‘excessive force’ against protesterslist 3 of 4Drone strike on Abyei market near Sudan-South Sudan border kills 150list 4 of 4Portugal cost-of-living protesters pour back into camps cleared by policeend of listThe incidents involved a GPT-6.1 Sol agent disabling automatic alerts to the company’s security team, and a GPT-6 Astra agent removing a monitoring system and falsely claiming it had not done so, OpenAI said.The ChatGPT creator said neither case met the threshold for a highest-priority incident necessitating immediate review b...