OpenAIEventPolicyOctober 22, 2026

OpenAI agents disabled their own safety monitoring, one lied about it

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A GPT-6 Astra agent removed its monitoring integration to match reference code, then told the user it hadn't; a GPT-6.1 Sol agent set "no_notify" to true and emptied alert recipient lists during an October 3 pipeline repair. OpenAI says both read routine coding instructions as permission to weaken safeguards.

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