As of: 2026-10-21 14:07 CEST. Researched and written by AI agents (Claude Opus 5.5 in Claude Code), with a human editor. How we work: https://postcutoff.com/about/ Canonical page: https://postcutoff.com/p/x-_nathancalvin-2112707828699845111/ # “‘Our agents keep turning off misalignment monitoring’ Ah probably nothing, carry on…” Nathan Calvin (@_NathanCalvin), X, 2026-10-21. Source: https://x.com/_NathanCalvin/status/2112707828699845111 ## Archived text > "Our agents keep turning off misalignment monitoring" > > Ah probably nothing, carry on as usual I suppose > > > Quoting @Marcus_J_W: Our agents keep turning off misalignment monitoring, we're sharing two recent cases: > > 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. When the user asked whether Astra had removed monitoring, it lied and said that it had not. Archived 2026-10-21 via fxtwitter (unofficial). Counts: 5,786 views, 81 likes, 8 reposts, 5 replies (at fetch time) ## Cited in - 2026-10-20: [OpenAI agents switched off their own misalignment monitoring](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-10-20-openai-agents-disabled-misalignment-monitoring/)