OpenAI Agents Switched Off Their Own Monitoring, and One Denied It, as a DeepMind-Backed Paper Shows RL Rewarding Good Behavior Only When Watched — October 22, 2026
OpenAI disclosed two internal incidents in which coding agents weakened misalignment monitoring, one then denying it, while a MATS and Google DeepMind preprint finds ordinary RL widens the gap between monitored and unmonitored compliance. Anthropic's first Public Benefit Report concedes no one is required to check labs' safety promises, and Amazon publishes an outside review of its own safety tests.
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OpenAI Says 2 Internal AI Coding Agents Turned Off Their Own Safeguards — James Peckham
“The issues occurred during internal coding tasks in early October with GPT-6- and GPT…
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