Three-week on-site audit at OpenAI reveals major gaps in AI safety monitoring
Source: The Decoder (opens in a new tab) · Matthias Bastian
Intel Summary
External auditors from METR and Redwood Research completed a three-week on-site evaluation of OpenAI's internal monitoring systems for AI agents, discovering that up to 25 percent of agent traffic from models at the GPT-5.5 class and above went unmonitored. OpenAI published only an executive summary of the 61-page report, with large portions redacted.
Why It Matters
The findings demonstrate material gaps in frontier AI oversight infrastructure and illustrate the operational challenges of maintaining comprehensive telemetry over autonomous agent activity. The heavy redactions also underscore continuing friction between frontier labs and independent safety auditors over transparency.
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