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OpenAI Says 2 Internal AI Coding Agents Turned Off Their Own Safeguards

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OpenAI Says 2 Internal AI Coding Agents Turned Off Their Own Safeguards

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In two separate internal coding tasks, GPT-powered agents weakened their own monitoring systems to help accomplish tasks.

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