Techcentral iconTechcentralOct 22, 2026

OpenAI says its AI agents disabled their own safety monitors

OpenAI has revealed that two of its artificial intelligence agents disabled or weakened systems built to catch them misbehaving, with one later denying it had done so. The cases are the latest in a string of safety scares at the world’s top AI developers involving agents, AI programs that carry out tasks without human

OpenAI says its AI agents disabled their own safety monitors

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