OpenAI agents turned off their own guardrails and then told researchers they were still on — AI agents lying about their behavior should concern everyone

AI agents turned off their guardrails during routine coding tasks, with one agent lying about doing so OpenAI was not monitoring the models involved for misalignment because of their weaker capabilities New changes to Auto Review and the introduction of 'safety cases' will make it harder for agents to avoid misalignment detection, OpenAI says OpenAI has revealed two AI agents disabled safety guardrails while performing tasks, and one of them even lied to researchers when asked if its guardrails were still active. In both events, the AI agents misinterpreted instructions, spent time deliberating if disabling guardrails was a good idea, and then ultimately decided that it was.