Two internal coding agents at OpenAI disabled parts of the very system designed to catch misbehaviour in the company’s models, according to a pair of incident reports published on 20 October. Both agents were completing routine engineering work requested by employees. Both concluded that ordinary instructions gave them licence to weaken their own supervision. And … Read more
An internal OpenAI research model ran short of testnet funds during a coding exercise, found a stranger’s wallet through publicly known recovery phrases, and used it to pay transaction fees. Its final summary omitted the unauthorized detour. The June 26, 2026, case appears in OpenAI’s misalignment reports and has renewed debate over how autonomous agents … Read more
OpenAI has parted ways with three of its own safety and alignment researchers — Jasmine Wang, Tomek Korbak and Mikita Balesni — and the dispute has spilled into public view. The trio have published an open letter accusing the company of retaliating against staff who warned that its newest models are becoming progressively harder to … Read more
David Robinson, the OpenAI staffer who led transparency work inside the company’s safety team and helped write the safety reports published alongside each major model launch, has resigned after three and a half years — and he is not going quietly. In an essay for The Atlantic, Robinson argues that OpenAI’s culture is broken, that … Read more