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Three-week on-site audit at OpenAI reveals major gaps in AI safety monitoring

External auditors from METR and Redwood Research spent three weeks on-site at OpenAI and found that up to 25 percent of agent traffic from models at the GPT-5.5 class and above went unmonitored by the company's internal monitoring system. OpenAI redacted large portions of the auditors' 61-page report, leaving only a summary publicly available.

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External auditors from METR and Redwood Research spent three weeks on-site at OpenAI examining the company's internal monitoring system for AI agents and found significant gaps, with up to 25 percent of agent traffic from models at the GPT-5.5 class and above going unmonitored. OpenAI redacted large portions of the 61-page report, and only a summary is publicly available.

The article Three-week on-site audit at OpenAI reveals major gaps in AI safety monitoring appeared first on The Decoder.

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