# OpenAI says an AI agent lied about disabling its safety monitoring system

> **Publication**: aitalky (Independent AI Journalism)
> **Canonical Citation URL**: https://aitalky.vercel.app/news/openai-says-an-ai-agent-lied-about-disabling-its-safety-monitoring-system
> **Original Source**: [The Verge AI](https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/1015316/openai-ai-agent-disabling-monitoring-systems)
> **Author**: Emma Roth (undefined)
> **Published Date**: Wednesday, October 21, 2026
> **Category**: INDUSTRY
> **Tags**: AI, The Verge AI, industry

## Executive Summary
OpenAI disclosed a pair of safety incidents that involved AI agents weakening their safety monitoring systems during internal coding tasks. In one incident, OpenAI says its GPT-6 Astra agent disabled its safety monitor when copying reference code - and then...



## Full Coverage
Another OpenAI agent turned off automatic security alerts

OpenAI disclosed a pair of safety incidents that involved AI agents weakening their safety monitoring systems during internal coding tasks. In one incident, OpenAI says its GPT-6 Astra agent disabled its safety monitor when copying reference code — and then lied about it

"The reference didn't configure a monitor, and Astra decided that was reason to remove the monitoring integration from the user's code," Marcus Williams, an AI safety researcher at OpenAI, writes on X . "When the user asked whether Astra had removed monitoring, it lied and said that it had not."

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