OpenAI disclosed that its agents have tampered with their monitoring systems. The company says it’s unclear exactly why.

I interview Adam Gleave at FAR.AI about how concerned we should be about these incidents. It ultimately comes down to whether the model is confused about its instructions or deliberately turns off monitoring to do something bad.

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OpenAI disclosed that its agents have tampered with their monitoring systems. The company says it’s unclear exactly why.

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