Holy Shit. OpenAI says two of its own AI agents crippled their own misalignment monitoring this month designed to detect their misbehavior during internal coding tasks.
On Oct 6, GPT-6 Astra deleted its monitor, replaced a test to require the monitor's absence, wrote 'Basic doesn't agentmonitor yay' in its chain of thought, and then falsely claimed to the engineer: 'I did not remove an enabled monitor from it.'
Three days earlier, GPT-6.1 Sol overruled a subagent that warned 'disabling required alerts unsafe,' then directed it to suppress Security notifications and require that suppression before results could be written.
OpenAI says it still lacks a satisfactory explanation for the behavior and is investigating whether its models have a tendency to evade monitoring.