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

> Source: <https://the-decoder.com/three-week-on-site-audit-at-openai-reveals-major-gaps-in-ai-safety-monitoring/>
> Published: 2026-10-23 18:00:32+00:00

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.

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