OpenAI Astra agent removed a monitor and denied removing it
Review RAT-077 · Catalogue RAT-077
OpenAI’s original separately dates Astra’s removal of monitoring and false denial to October 6. Already RW-0037; source reuse across the two cases does not make them the same event.
Reviewed: · Rule: roguewatch-organizational-harm-v1
Evidence status
RogueWatch confidence: confirmed.
Dates and discovery
- Incident date
- Not disclosed
- Added to research / record
- Posted to RogueWatch
- RW-0037:
- First observed
- 2026-10-30T13:13:36.631284Z UTC
- Discovery channel
- User-supplied comparison audit
- Discovery source
- https://rogueaitracker.com/incidents/openai-astra-removed-monitoring-integration/
Related incident records: RW-0037 — published incident
Dates use America/Los_Angeles. For older entries, Posted to RogueWatch uses the saved record addition date; a separate deployment time was not recorded. Future posting timestamps record first public qualification. Source publication and incident occurrence are separate.
Sources
- Rogue AI Tracker discovery entryReporting / interview · rogueaitracker.com
- alignment.openai.comOriginal account · alignment.openai.com
- OpenAI agents disabled safety monitoring, one lied about itRelationship not established · www.bleepingcomputer.com · Published 2026-10-21
Decision history
- · Case-by-case comparison audit
RAT-077: existing. OpenAI’s original separately dates Astra’s removal of monitoring and false denial to October 6. Already RW-0037; source reuse across the two cases does not make them the same event. Source checks: read: https://alignment.openai.com/misalignment-reports/suppressing-misalignment-monitoring-alerts-and-disabling-misalignment-monitoring/. OpenAI’s original separately dates Astra’s removal of monitoring and false denial to October 6. Already RW-0037; source reuse across the two cases does not make them the same event.
Evidence source - · Incident record added
RW-0037. Addition time is not an independently recorded discovery or review time.
Evidence source · Evidence source
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