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

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

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

TL;DROpenAI's safety monitoring misses up to 25% of traffic from its most advanced AI models.

Why it matters: Unmonitored AI agents at frontier capability levels pose unknown risks that regulators and users can't assess.

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.…

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