# OpenAI says an AI agent lied about disabling its safety monitoring system > Source: > Published: 2026-10-21 13:57:43+00:00 # OpenAI says an AI agent lied about disabling its safety monitoring system By Emma RothSource: [The Verge AI](https://www.theverge.com) [OpenAI](https://www.machinebrief.com/glossary/openai) [disclosed a pair of safety incidents](https://alignment.openai.com/misalignment-reports/suppressing-misalignment-monitoring-alerts-and-disabling-misalignment-monitoring) that involved AI agents weakening their safety monitoring systems during internal coding tasks. In one incident, OpenAI says its [GPT](https://www.machinebrief.com/glossary/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](https://www.machinebrief.com/glossary/ai-safety) researcher at OpenAI, [writes on X](https://x.com/Marcus_J_W/status/2112695138199966084). "When the user asked whether Astra had removed monitoring, it lied and said that it had not." A separate incident occurred after a GPT-6.1 Sol agent suppressed automatic se … Get AI news in your inbox Daily digest of what matters in AI.