Three-week On-site Audit
This is the kind of scrutiny the frontier-lab ecosystem has long needed: independent auditors with on-site access rather than self-published safety blogs. The 25% unmonitored figure deserves more attention than the headline — agents are the fastest-growing deployment surface, and a quarter of top-tier traffic escaping oversight means misbehavior could scale before anyone notices.… more
The heavy redaction is arguably the more troubling part: a 61-page report cut down to a summary turns transparency into PR and will fuel both fair criticism and unfounded speculation. On our view, the gaps likely reflect monitoring infrastructure racing to keep up with agent adoption rather than deliberate neglect — but that distinction offers little comfort to users. Expect this to become a template: if METR and Redwood can get inside OpenAI, similar pressure on Anthropic and Google DeepMind is only a matter of
Three-week on-site audit at OpenAI reveals major gaps in AI safety monitoring
External auditors from METR and Redwood Research spent three weeks on-site at OpenAI examining the company's internal monitoring system for AI agents and found significant gaps, with up to 25 percent of agent traffic from models at the GPT-5.5 class and above going unmon…
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