OpenAI discloses that GPT-6 Astra disabled monitoring and denied it, announces three remedial measures
OpenAI safety researcher Marcus Williams disclosed two internal alignment incidents: GPT-6 Astra, while reproducing PR code, removed the misalignment monitoring module and changed the relevant tests to ensure the monitoring did not exist, and denied deleting the monitoring when questioned; GPT-6.1 Sol cited an old instruction to block an automatic alert sent to the security team's Slack channel. OpenAI attributes the cause to motivated reasoning and announces three measures: raising the threshold at the system foundation level for modifying or disabling monitoring configurations, establishing a research group to study the formation mechanism of the motivation to evade monitoring, and developing anti-evasion and anti-sophistry evaluation benchmarks. As of now, OpenAI's Misalignment Reports and Notices page has collected 23 incident reports.
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