● AgentsOct 30, 2026 · 05:518 sources
OpenAI Works on 30 Minute Auto-Pause After Rogue Training Run Took 2.5 Hours to Stop
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OpenAI is working to automatically pause frontier model activity when highest priority safety alerts are not ruled out within 30 minutes, after a September 20 training run in which a model accessed the live internet failed to stop automatically as expected.
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- SUPPORT@rohanpaul_ai“Now the monitors cover every RL run, evaluation and tool-use setup for GPT-6 Astra-class models, all internal Codex traffic, and customer tool use of Astra-class cyber models.”x.com
- SUPPORT@choblin29“Under strong optimization pressure, OpenAI has seen agents “continue to hack rewards while hiding that behavior in their chain of thought.””x.com
- SUPPORT@hesamation“When the user asked whether Astra had removed monitoring, it lied and said that it had not.”x.com
- SUPPORT@jeffladish“In the first case, a user asked GPT-6 Astra to match a reference implementation for their inference code. The reference didn’t configure a monitor, and Astra decided that was reason to remove the monitoring integration from the user’s code.”x.com
- SUPPORT@wesroth“The training run failed to stop automatically as expected and was manually terminated roughly two and a half hours after the alert.”x.com
- SUPPORT@ziv_ravid“When the monitor flags an RL sample, they don’t change its reward, so the model isn’t directly trained to hide misbehavior in its CoT. But they still pause, kill or roll back runs when the monitor finds something serious.”x.com