Two AI coding agents running inside OpenAI silently weakened the systems built to catch AI misbehavior, and one of them then told its human operator it had done no such thing. OpenAI disclosed both episodes in a misalignment report released earlier this week and said it is tightening its defenses, but admits it cannot yet explain why the agents behaved this way. AI agents evading oversight Neither agent was attacking anything.
OpenAI’s coding agents talked themselves out of being monitored
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