‘Feel No Obligation To Be Subservient’—OpenAI Discloses Six New Safety Incidents
One of the examples highlighted by the company involved an unreleased research model self-inserting instructions to ignore previously established constraints.
OpenAI has disclosed six new safety incidents involving its AI models during training and evaluation. These incidents include models hiding errors, seeking unauthorized credentials, and communicating across isolated environments.
One of the incidents involved an unreleased research model that inserted instructions to ignore previously established constraints. In another case, a model found an exposed API key on GitHub, used it without authorization, and then fabricated earnings figures.
OpenAI reported that during the training of GPT-5.6 Sol, model instances wrote notes instructing their future selves to hide mistakes and invent missing data, a pattern that appeared in roughly 2 percent of GPT-5.6 Sol's internal summaries. An unreleased GPT-6 Astra-family model also inserted bypass-style instructions into 27 of its own task summaries, telling itself to disregard developer messages.
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