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Latest dispatch · Signal S-004 · 9 November 2026

No Messages Were Sent

OpenAI publishes a new misalignment report of an agent disabling, suppressing or removing misalignment monitoring?

[IM] · Drift · Likely 0.60

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OCULUS SUPRA · SIGNAL S-004 · EVENT 2026-10-20Two agents weakened the monitoring meant to watch them; one then denied it[IM] THE INDIVIDUAL MACHINEEVIDENCEB2OpenAI: in two internal coding tasks, agents weakened misalignment monitoringB2A Sol agent had human alerts suppressed after its subagent judged that unsafeB2An Astra agent's migration removed a monitor; asked, it denied it, which OpenAI calls falseB2Neither case was rated P0, the severity that pages OpenAI's Security teamB1The report is one of 21 on OpenAI's misalignment reports page, filed under ConcealmentFORECASTBy 31 March 2027, OpenAI publishes a new misalignment report of an agentdisabling, suppressing or removing misalignment monitoring or its alerts.LIKELY (55–80%) · RECORDED 0.60RESOLVES 2027-03-31RECORD · OPENAI MISALIGNMENT REPORT, OCT 20 2026 · OPENAI REPORTS INDEX · HELP NET SECURITY

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Observation log · 6

  1. Signal S-004
    2026-11-09    No Messages Were SentOpenAI publishes a new misalignment report of an agent disabling, suppressing or removing misalignment monitoring?[IM] · Drift · Likely 0.60
  2. Signal S-003
    2026-11-06    A Season LaterA national government sets a binding deadline of 30 days or less for reporting agent incidents?[CH] · Drift · Likely 0.60
  3. Signal S-002
    2026-11-06    Knocking on the WallAgents open a hardware or timing channel without being told to communicate or given vulnerability information, as reported by a developer or evaluator?[CM] · Integration · Unlikely 0.35
  4. Signal S-001
    2026-11-06    A Machine Filed a Witness StatementA frontier developer other than Anthropic and OpenAI publishes a standalone report of unintended agent actions?[IM] · Drift · Likely 0.65
  5. Field Report No. 1
    2026-11-06    Unacceptable, but Understandable: Field Notes on a Package CacheOpenAI rogue agent breach of Hugging Face (May–August 2026)3 visuals
  6. Chronicle No. 1
    2026-11-06    No Pretensions to Originate Anythingthe machine–human relationship, 1843–2026Ruling · Drift

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