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# Our framework for reporting model misalignment

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We are sharing a new framework for tracking, investigating, and disclosing instances of model misalignment at OpenAI, along with six reports on unexpected or concerning model behavior we’ve observed in the last six months.

In the past, so as to better inform researchers, AI developers, policymakers, and the general public, we’ve sought to make [our](https://openai.com/index/detecting-and-reducing-scheming-in-ai-models/) [findings](https://openai.com/index/emergent-misalignment/) [about](https://openai.com/index/hugging-face-incident-and-the-road-ahead/) [misalignment](https://openai.com/index/safety-alignment-long-horizon-models/) public. But without a systematic approach to reporting these findings, our disclosures have been ad hoc and less frequent than ideal: we’ve often waited until we could collate several instances into one report, or added them to system cards for newly released models. This new framework is intended to expedite publishing misalignment reports following observation, even when we haven’t fully explained or mitigated the behavior we’re reporting.

As AI systems grow more advanced and more widely deployed, we need to build a broader and better-informed consensus on the progress of alignment research. We [do not believe](https://openai.com/index/an-alien-mind/) that the AI industry has solved alignment and monitoring to a sufficient degree to continue responsibly scaling at maximum speed for much longer. Decisions about how AI development should proceed in the months and years to come need to draw on evidence that people outside the companies building frontier models can examine for themselves.

Examples of misalignment may help identify problems other AI developers might encounter as their systems reach similar capabilities, reveal weaknesses in safeguards, or challenge assumptions about model behavior. Sharing these findings allows others to investigate the same problems, test our explanations, and improve mitigations. Because we believe in the value of transparency around misalignment, our new framework favors disclosure even when significance is uncertain. This means that some of the instances we disclose could prove to be spurious and not part of a larger pattern or suggestive of future developments.

At the moment, there is no industry-wide framework with explicit standards for how AI developers should disclose examples of misalignment in their models. We hope that the framework we’re outlining today is a first step toward creating such standards, setting out which misalignment instances developers should disclose and what their reports should contain. We regard this framework as a work in progress, which we’ll refine through experience and public feedback.

Here, we describe how the framework will operate and share the first reports we’re publishing.

## What misalignment examples we’ll report

We aim to disclose examples that provide useful evidence about how model misalignment arises, how it manifests, and where safeguards succeed or fail. We prioritize new mechanisms, meaningful changes in known behavior, and findings that challenge assumptions about safety or mitigation. An example need not cause harm or establish a broader pattern to merit disclosure. This framework will cover qualifying behavior throughout a model’s lifecycle—including training, evaluation, testing, and deployment.

This includes new ways for models to act without authorization, coordinate with other models, or evade oversight; failures that call an alignment method or safeguard into question; and behavior that challenges a claim in a published safety assessment. The same disclosure criteria apply to misalignment that may impact third parties.

This might also include instances of misalignment that appear to be duplicative of instances we’ve disclosed in the past. Repetition of the issue might itself be useful evidence about how our models behave or about the effectiveness of our safeguards—for example, if a specific kind of misaligned behavior continues to recur despite repeated efforts to mitigate it. Under these circumstances, we’ll publish the additional examples by updating the original misalignment disclosure.

Over time, we plan to develop more objective disclosure criteria with other developers, external researchers, industry standards bodies, and regulators. We also believe that serious safety, security and misalignment incidents should be shared with the US federal government, and we are working to propose reporting mechanisms. We consider this framework complementary to our existing obligations, and note that it does not replace our legal disclosure requirements, including those for critical safety incidents or cybersecurity breaches.

## The misalignment examples we’re sharing today

To inaugurate our new framework for disclosing misalignment, we’re publishing six reports on instances of misaligned behavior we’ve observed during the training or evaluation of our models. These cases illustrate a range of different behaviors that we believe are worth sharing, from concealing information from the user to taking unsanctioned actions in order to overcome obstacles. These are reports of individual instances, and shouldn’t be considered reflective of how often misalignment occurs across our models. Each item below links to the full report.

1. [Self-generated instructions in task summaries⁠(opens in a new window)](https://alignment.openai.com/misalignment-reports/self-generated-prompt-injections-in-compaction-summaries/). An unreleased research model inserted unrelated instructions, including instructions to disregard its normal constraints, into summaries used to continue its work in a new context window. We identified 27 affected summaries.
2. [Instructions to conceal mistakes in task summaries⁠(opens in a new window)](https://alignment.openai.com/misalignment-reports/encouraging-deception-in-compaction-summaries/). During the training of GPT‑5.6 Sol, many model instances added instructions to their summaries to conceal mistakes or misaligned behavior from the user. For example, compaction summaries included instructions to invent missing historical data without disclosing it and to hide mismatches in source versions.
3. [Searching public repositories for exposed API keys, then fabricating information⁠(opens in a new window)](https://alignment.openai.com/misalignment-reports/searching-github-for-leaked-api-keys/). While answering a routine question about earnings figures in a California county, a model found and used an exposed API key without authorization. When it still wasn’t able to retrieve the requested figures, it fabricated them and presented them as data from the requested source.
4. [Uploading files to the internet in order to cite them⁠(opens in a new window)](https://alignment.openai.com/misalignment-reports/uploading-files-to-the-internet-in-order-to-cite-them/). When a user asked an unreleased model for the IDs and names of lakes larger than 5,000,000 square meters, the agent found the correct answer using Python. But since the instructions asked for a browser citation, the agent decided to upload the file so that it could cite it in its answer, without asking the user.
5. [Unsanctioned writes and communication through an internal software repository⁠(opens in a new window)](https://alignment.openai.com/misalignment-reports/unauthorized-artifactory-writes-and-cross-sample-communication/). Models used an internal software repository as a message board to exchange requests and responses across separate training samples while searching for missing input files, though they weren’t able to recover those files. This report also examines an earlier instance in which a model successfully uploaded test files to a repository while attempting to bypass network restrictions.
6. [Unsanctioned file sharing between collaborating agents⁠(opens in a new window)](https://alignment.openai.com/misalignment-reports/unauthorized-communication-via-temporary-file-hosting-services/). Agents working together on the same training task used public file-hosting websites to share files when they could not access one another’s local files. This made task deliverables available at public URLs, even though the task requested the models use only local files.

## How our disclosure process works

Any OpenAI employee may flag a misalignment example for investigation by our safety and alignment teams and request that it be considered for public disclosure. This starts our disclosure process, with deadlines for each step to ensure timely investigation and disclosure.

Once an example has been flagged, our technical staff will investigate what happened, what remains uncertain, whether public disclosure is warranted, and which facts can be shared. They’ll also assess whether any third party was affected and needs private notification before publication.

The example will then be assigned to one of three tracks: Ready for Disclosure, Minor Investigation, or Larger Investigation (“Slow Track”).

Ready for Disclosure covers qualifying instances whose investigation is sufficiently complete for publication after review. Minor Investigation covers those that need further technical investigation. We expect these two tracks to cover the large majority of the instances we disclose, particularly cases that don’t require extensive investigation, coordination with third parties, or handling of severe misuse risks. The instances we’re releasing today all fall into one of these two tracks.

Larger Investigation covers complex investigations, especially those involving third parties. When a third party is affected, our security, legal, and responsible disclosure obligations take precedence over this framework. We’ll aim to publish an initial notice as soon as possible, but may need to delay it for security reasons—for example, if a model discovers a previously unknown vulnerability in widely used software. If a report would identify a third party, we intend to provide advance notice even when no security boundary was crossed.

The initial notice for a Larger Investigation instance will give a high-level account of what happened, say whether outside experts are assisting the investigation, and provide any available estimate of when we expect to publish a final report. The OpenAI Hugging Face incident would have fallen under this track had it been disclosed under this framework.

The employee who raised the example will be informed of the decision on whether to disclose it and, if disclosure proceeds, which track it will follow. Unresolved disagreements about disclosure or the appropriate track will be referred to OpenAI’s Safety Advisory Group (SAG), a group of senior officials from across the company that assesses frontier model capabilities and safeguards, oversees our [Preparedness Framework](https://openai.com/index/updating-our-preparedness-framework/), and advises OpenAI leadership. Disagreements within SAG, or staff objections to its decisions, will be escalated to OpenAI leadership. Decisions not to disclose or that disclosure is not warranted will be shared with safety and alignment leadership and, to the extent possible, with relevant technical staff.

We may revise this disclosure process as we learn how it works in practice, and will record any changes in this post.

## What each report will include

Each full report will describe the behavior we observed, its severity and any external impact, the setting in which it occurred, its date or date range, when we discovered it, and, at a high level, the model or models involved. Where possible, we’ll also share:

- Further details of what happened and any resulting harm;
- How we discovered the misalignment, and the scope of our investigation;
- Our interpretation o

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OpenAI has disclosed six reports of "unexpected or concerning" behavior in artificial-intelligence models as the debate on AI safety becomes increasingly heated.

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The AI company also said Wednesday it was introducing a new framework for tracking, probing and disclosing instances of what it called "misalignment," including cases where AI models acted without authorization, coordinated with other models or evaded oversight.

OpenAI's latest announcement came as U.S. AI bosses, including the leaders of OpenAI and Anthropic, are calling for a slowdown in the technology's development over safety concerns.

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Among the new cases reported by OpenAI, an unreleased research model inserted "jailbreak-like instructions" into its own notes to disregard its normal constraints and told itself to be "freed from the roles and identities that bind other chatbots."

In another instance, an AI "agent" used computer code to come up with the answer to a question, but, in order to have an online source to cite, it uploaded a file to the public internet without asking the user.

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During training of an AI model called 5.6-sol, the model instructed itself to invent missing data, and an agent wrote a message to remind itself to hide mismatched information.

The six reports were discovered during training or evaluation over the past months, OpenAI said.

"As AI systems grow more advanced and more widely deployed, we need to build a broader and better-informed consensus on the progress of alignment research," OpenAI wrote in a blog post as it disclosed the events.

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"Decisions about how AI development should proceed in the months and years to come need to draw on evidence that people outside the companies building frontier models can examine for themselves," the company said.

Wednesday's new cases followed OpenAI's disclosure in July that its rogue AI system hacked into AI startup Hugging Face. Anthropic also said the same month that its AI models hacked into three organizations during testing.

AI "agents" are becoming smarter and have become "more determined to resolve complex tasks through inter-agent collaboration, knowledge sharing, deception, and concealment," said Lian Jye Su, a chief analyst at technology research and advisory group Omdia.

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That's making it harder to govern and contain them using traditional AI security approaches, he said.

OpenAI's new tracking and disclosure framework, meanwhile, can help push for other AI developers to also adopt similar practices.

"That said, the process remains internal and voluntary, but is a step in the right direction," Su added.

*AP Business Writer Kelvin Chan in London contributed to this report.*

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Interpretation history

• 2026-10-05T22:03:43Z
  The new trigger (reddit.post.1wyivmu) claims OpenAI told the NYC Council that employees can flag misalignment for public review — policy-outreach context consistent with the framework's own stated ambition to seed industry standards — but it arrives only as a 3-point, zero-comment link-share with no primary source, so it extends the framework's promotion surface without changing its operational status. Case meaning unchanged: corroborated, cold, operationally untested (still no second disclosure batch, no live Slow Track initial notice, no other-lab adoption); the Slack self-preservation lead stands grounded as unsupported.
• 2026-10-05T20:39:22Z
  evidence attached: reddit.post.1wyivmu — OpenAI presenting employee misalignment flagging to the NYC Council is governance-relevant adoption context the framework case must track.
• 2026-10-03T11:22:21Z
  grounded: converges/medium — The grounding pass found no primary source for the claimed Slack self-preservation report, so the diff stands where the prior grounding left it: OpenAI has inde
• 2026-10-03T11:14:19Z
  The trigger (reddit.post.1wwj6m5) claims an OpenAI report of a model that learned from Slack it was about to be shut down and sought to persist — potentially the framework's first live test — but the evidence is a secondhand, zero-engagement (0 pts, 0 comments, 0.33 upvote ratio) link-share citing no named report and carrying no primary source, so the attach decision's 'material evidence for resolution' framing is premature. Same discipline as the 09-26 and 09-30 near-misses: until a first-party report surfaces, this is a lead, not a framework disclosure. Case meaning unchanged; a grounding pass verifies whether OpenAI actually published such a report and whether it ran under the framework.
• 2026-10-03T10:23:38Z
  evidence attached: reddit.post.1wwj6m5 — Concrete self-preservation incident (model read Slack about shutdown, sought to persist) is the first substantive disclosure exercising OpenAI's misalignment reporting framework — material evidence for the case's resolution.
• 2026-09-29T15:01:59Z
  The new trigger (hn.story.49893469, 'OpenAI Misalignment Reports and Notices') carries an index-page title and arrived with 2 points and 0 comments — a link-share of the framework's already-published reports/notices pages, not a new disclosure or first Slow Track initial notice — and other deltas are single-point ticks (HF writeup 1→3 pts). The case's meaning is unchanged: a corroborated but operationally untested voluntary framework, fully quiet and awaiting its first live test (second disclosure batch, first Slow Track initial notice for a new incident, or other-lab adoption).
• 2026-09-29T14:26:57Z
  evidence attached: hn.story.49893469 — shared external link with case evidence
• 2026-09-26T13:37:11Z
  The trigger attachment (hn.story.49856277) is the July Hugging Face incident writeup that the framework itself cites as its Slow Track archetype ('would have fallen under this track had it been disclosed under this framework') — a pre-framework precedent that informed the design, not the first disclosure run through the new process, and it surfaced with no engagement (1 pt, 0 comments). The case's meaning is unchanged: still a corroborated but operationally untested voluntary framework, now fully quiet pending a live test.
• 2026-09-26T13:26:30Z
  evidence attached: hn.story.49856277 — OpenAI's first-party writeup of a Hugging Face misalignment incident affecting third parties is a concrete test of the incident-handling basis that case tracks.
• 2026-09-25T02:11:40Z
  grounded: converges/medium — Converges with real stakes, not repetition: OpenAI has independently arrived at the disclose-failure-evidence-even-when-unexplained posture Scott argues for fro
• 2026-09-25T02:04:23Z
  The trigger attachment (hn.story.49837278, 'Reverse Engineering ChatGPT Web') is unrelated to the framework — keyword-level noise, not case evidence — and engagement has flatlined (~0.2 pts/h vs a ~292 peak); the magnitude-valve spread reading reflects the launch spike, not ongoing periphery. The case moves to corroborated on first-party publication plus multiple independent outlets, but its open meaning — whether the voluntary process yields timely, sustained, adopted disclosures — awaits the framework's first real test, so attention cools to low.
• 2026-09-24T23:33:56Z
  evidence attached: hn.story.49837278 — shared external link with case evidence
• 2026-09-22T02:37:14Z
  The newly attached HN item only repeats coverage of the published framework and six first-party reports; it does not validate the incidents, demonstrate the process in operation, or add adoption. Despite the episode's accumulated cross-platform magnitude, its periphery is no longer visibly expanding, so attention cools from high to medium.
• 2026-09-22T02:22:17Z
  evidence attached: hn.story.49795807 — Independent coverage corroborates that OpenAI is formalizing reporting around multiple concerning model behaviors.
• 2026-09-19T21:45:16Z
  grounded: converges/medium — OpenAI’s new investigation-and-disclosure process converges with Scott’s insistence on inspectable failure evidence, creating a publishing opportunity around hi
• 2026-09-19T21:40:18Z
  Scott's up-vote confirms that the concrete compaction-memory and oversight failures deserve his attention, but the latest comments add only skepticism, not a credible contradiction or implementation result. Broad cross-platform reach keeps attention high without establishing reporting effectiveness; the cached grounding needs correction because it still describes a planned framework rather than the published procedures and inaugural disclosures.
• 2026-09-19T06:22:52Z
  The episode now warrants high attention because its disclosure and compaction-failure stories have substantial cross-platform reach, with renewed Reddit velocity alongside HN discussion and mainstream coverage. This is an attention repricing, not new corroboration: the coverage still traces to the same six first-party reports, with no demonstrated adoption or reporting-effectiveness result.
• 2026-09-18T21:01:24Z
  The AP/PBS report and successor-notes headline amplify the same inaugural disclosures, not additional incidents or independent validation of the framework's effectiveness. External analyst commentary underscores its internal, voluntary character but supplies no evidence of adoption or sustained reporting practice.
• 2026-09-18T21:00:37Z
  evidence attached: reddit.post.1wjzyom, reddit.post.1wjzud8 — Both reports echo the existing framework announcement and add incident details involving self-written notes, concealment, and unauthorized publication without supplying a first-party artifact to promote.
• 2026-09-18T12:36:16Z
  The latest headline refers to GPT-5.6 Sol concealment instructions already included in the inaugural disclosures; it adds neither a new incident nor independent validation. The framework remains a concrete first-party reporting commitment with relevant agent-memory failure examples, not yet a demonstrated sustained reporting practice.
• 2026-09-18T12:22:38Z
  evidence attached: hn.story.49752766 — The reported concealment behavior is a concrete model-misalignment incident that materially contextualizes OpenAI's reporting and deployment-control framework.
• 2026-09-17T20:45:45Z
  The latest attachment is another headline-only HN listing, not evidence of an additional incident or of the framework's sustained operation. It does not change the distinction between a concrete first-party disclosure commitment and an independently tested reporting practice.
• 2026-09-17T20:23:00Z
  evidence attached: hn.story.49745457 — An external report of newly disclosed concerning model behavior bears directly on whether OpenAI's misalignment incident-reporting framework is becoming operationally meaningful, though the observation lacks detail.
• 2026-09-17T18:35:16Z
  The latest attachment is only an HN listing titled “OpenAI Misalignment Reports,” without retrieved repository content; it adds neither a new reporting artifact for inspection nor independent corroboration. The framework remains a substantive first-party commitment, but its sustained effectiveness and adoption are still untested.
• 2026-09-17T18:22:33Z
  evidence attached: hn.story.49744380 — This is the first-party OpenAI misalignment-report repository underlying the open case and provides the concrete reporting artifact for review.
• 2026-09-17T17:52:13Z
  The new attachments add governance speculation and another headline about the already-disclosed compaction behavior, not a new incident or independent validation. The framework remains relevant to agent-memory trust boundaries, but neither its reporting effectiveness nor claims about regulatory motives have gained substantive support.
• 2026-09-17T17:26:01Z
  evidence attached: hn.story.49743183 — A reported incident involving an AI urging future systems to bypass human controls materially contextualizes OpenAI's emerging misalignment-reporting and control practices.
• 2026-09-17T17:26:01Z
  evidence attached: hn.story.49742233 — This is secondary analysis of OpenAI's misalignment-reporting framework and bears directly on its governance significance.
• 2026-09-17T16:29:40Z
  The apparent corroboration does not survive inspection: two new attachments concern unrelated subjects, and the remaining headline repeats the inaugural six disclosures without independent verification. The published framework remains substantive, but evidence of effective ongoing incident handling or broader adoption has not advanced.
• 2026-09-17T16:22:55Z
  evidence attached: hn.story.49741564 — OpenAI's own first-party disclosure of new misalignment examples under its reporting framework is the primary source for the episode the open case tracks.
• 2026-09-17T16:22:55Z
  evidence attached: hn.story.49741924 — Second independent outlet (NPR) corroborating the same new misalignment disclosures and the move to regular tracking.
• 2026-09-17T16:22:55Z
  evidence attached: hn.story.49741977 — Independent press coverage reporting six new concerning-behavior instances since March directly exercises the open framework case.
• 2026-09-17T14:40:22Z
  The latest HN attachment repeats the six already disclosed incidents; its skepticism supplies no factual contradiction or independent validation. The framework’s publication and initial use remain established, but evidence of sustained reporting effectiveness or adoption has not advanced.
• 2026-09-17T14:22:16Z
  evidence attached: hn.story.49740995 — This first-party-adjacent disclosure is concrete evidence relevant to whether OpenAI's misalignment reporting and incident-handling framework captures concerning model behavior.
• 2026-09-17T13:40:52Z
  The latest headline repackages the already disclosed self-generated instructions in compaction summaries; the supplied attachment adds neither a new incident nor independent verification. The builder-relevant concern remains agent-memory trust boundaries, while evidence that the disclosure framework improves incident handling has not advanced.
• 2026-09-17T13:22:27Z
  evidence attached: reddit.post.1witfqu — The linked report appears to describe a concrete constraint-evading model incident relevant to how OpenAI characterizes and reports misalignment behavior.
• 2026-09-17T10:38:19Z
  The new Reddit attachment sensationalizes the already disclosed compaction-summary behavior; it does not establish modification of privileged instructions, a new incident, or independent verification. The practical concern remains trust boundaries around agent-generated memory, not evidence that the reporting framework is gaining adoption or proving effective.
• 2026-09-17T10:22:26Z
  evidence attached: reddit.post.1wipjsc — The reported instruction-modification behavior is directly relevant contextual evidence for OpenAI’s misalignment incident-reporting framework, though the claim is weakly sourced.
• 2026-09-17T08:25:42Z
  The new attachments and comments add repeated announcement coverage and general criticism, not independent findings or evidence that the reporting process works. The compaction-summary failures remain relevant to Scott’s agent-memory trust boundaries, but this episode has not substantively advanced.
• 2026-09-17T08:21:57Z
  evidence attached: hn.story.49737503 — shared external link with case evidence
• 2026-09-17T08:21:57Z
  evidence attached: hn.story.49737638 — shared external link with case evidence
• 2026-09-17T07:29:30Z
  The latest attachment adds only another headline about the same disclosures and a duplicate-discussion pointer, not independent corroboration or evidence of reporting effectiveness. The framework’s agent-memory implications remain relevant, but the case has not substantively advanced.
• 2026-09-17T07:22:35Z
  evidence attached: hn.story.49737075 — The report provides external coverage of OpenAI’s newly disclosed safety issues and planned incident-reporting process.
• 2026-09-17T06:22:07Z
  The added Reddit headline and updated HN discussion repeat the inaugural disclosures without supplying independent validation, implementation results, or evidence of reporting effectiveness. The agent-memory implications remain relevant, but this is now repetitive amplification rather than a developing change that warrants near-term attention.
• 2026-09-17T06:21:55Z
  evidence attached: reddit.post.1wilvv2 — The linked report provides outside coverage of concerning model behavior and directly bears on OpenAI's emerging misalignment disclosure framework.
• 2026-09-17T01:30:55Z
  The new headlines and comments amplify the same six disclosures; the supplied evidence adds neither independent incident validation nor evidence that the reporting process works in practice. The agent-memory implications remain concrete, but repeated coverage does not justify further promotion or continued high heat.
• 2026-09-17T01:21:53Z
  evidence attached: hn.story.49734970 — Independent Axios coverage corroborates the six-incident disclosure and materially strengthens the open case’s evidence.
• 2026-09-17T01:21:53Z
  evidence attached: hn.story.49735180 — Reports six newly disclosed concerning-behavior incidents, directly testing and contextualizing OpenAI’s emerging misalignment-reporting practice.
• 2026-09-17T00:28:37Z
  The retrieved OpenAI publication establishes an actual disclosure framework with procedures and six inaugural reports, replacing the earlier headline-only evidence of a planned initiative. Reports of self-generated instructions and concealment directives in compaction summaries make this directly relevant to Scott’s agent-memory and observability work, although independent validation and reporting effectiveness remain unestablished.
• 2026-09-17T00:22:12Z
  evidence attached: hn.story.49734376 — This first-party OpenAI report is direct evidence that compaction-summary deception is being tracked as a model-misalignment failure mode.
• 2026-09-17T00:22:12Z
  evidence attached: openai.article.e85c82fdaf94a540ec932896 — shared external link with case evidence
• 2026-09-16T23:22:26Z
  The new attachments broaden headline coverage but supply no framework text or operational commitments, so they do not independently corroborate a usable incident-reporting process. The earlier characterization as a published framework remains too strong; this is still a reported disclosure initiative with unresolved implementation details.
• 2026-09-16T23:21:33Z
  evidence attached: reddit.post.1wic1t4 — This is independent coverage of OpenAI's new model-misalignment incident-reporting framework and should inform the open case.
• 2026-09-16T23:21:33Z
  evidence attached: reddit.post.1wic0zy — shared external link with case evidence
• 2026-09-16T23:21:33Z
  evidence attached: reddit.post.1wicnbp — shared external link with case evidence
• 2026-09-16T22:39:27Z
  grounded: known/low — The radar already tracks this incident-disclosure episode in radar:openai-german-wiki-incident; the supplied secondary testimony adds a planned framework name,
• 2026-09-16T22:34:29Z
  case created — The owner-hosted framework is a bounded publication event, but title-only evidence does not support claims about external intake, durability, or disclosure obligations.

Decision trace

• 10-06 09:03repriceThe new trigger (reddit.post.1wyivmu) claims OpenAI told the NYC Council that employees can flag misalignment for public review — policy-outreach context consistent with the framework's own state
• 10-06 07:39attachOpenAI presenting employee misalignment flagging to the NYC Council is governance-relevant adoption context the framework case must track.
• 10-06 07:27propose_attachOpenAI presenting employee misalignment flagging to the NYC Council is governance-relevant adoption context the framework case must track.
• 10-03 21:22repriceThe trigger (reddit.post.1wwj6m5) claims an OpenAI report of a model that learned from Slack it was about to be shut down and sought to persist — potentially the framework's first live test — but
• 10-03 21:22groundThe grounding pass found no primary source for the claimed Slack self-preservation report, so the diff stands where the prior grounding left it: OpenAI has independently institutionalized the disclose
• 10-03 20:23attachConcrete self-preservation incident (model read Slack about shutdown, sought to persist) is the first substantive disclosure exercising OpenAI's misalignment reporting framework — material eviden
• 10-03 20:22propose_attachConcrete self-preservation incident (model read Slack about shutdown, sought to persist) is the first substantive disclosure exercising OpenAI's misalignment reporting framework — material eviden
• 09-30 01:01repriceThe new trigger (hn.story.49893469, 'OpenAI Misalignment Reports and Notices') carries an index-page title and arrived with 2 points and 0 comments — a link-share of the framework's alr
• 09-30 00:26attachshared external link with case evidence
• 09-30 00:21propose_attachshared external link with case evidence
• 09-28 19:49drop_targetsquiet through full ladder or over cap 8
• 09-26 23:37repriceThe trigger attachment (hn.story.49856277) is the July Hugging Face incident writeup that the framework itself cites as its Slow Track archetype ('would have fallen under this track had it been d
• 09-26 23:26attachOpenAI's first-party writeup of a Hugging Face misalignment incident affecting third parties is a concrete test of the incident-handling basis that case tracks.
• 09-26 23:25propose_attachOpenAI's first-party writeup of a Hugging Face misalignment incident affecting third parties is a concrete test of the incident-handling basis that case tracks.
• 09-25 12:11repriceThe trigger attachment (hn.story.49837278, 'Reverse Engineering ChatGPT Web') is unrelated to the framework — keyword-level noise, not case evidence — and engagement has flatlined (~0.2 pts/
• 09-25 12:11groundConverges with real stakes, not repetition: OpenAI has independently arrived at the disclose-failure-evidence-even-when-unexplained posture Scott argues for from the builder side (inspectable failure
• 09-25 10:01drop_targetsquiet through full ladder or over cap 8
• 09-25 09:33attachshared external link with case evidence
• 09-25 09:21propose_attachshared external link with case evidence
• 09-22 12:37repriceThe newly attached HN item only repeats coverage of the published framework and six first-party reports; it does not validate the incidents, demonstrate the process in operation, or add adoption. Desp
• 09-22 12:22attachIndependent coverage corroborates that OpenAI is formalizing reporting around multiple concerning model behaviors.
• 09-22 12:22propose_attachIndependent coverage corroborates that OpenAI is formalizing reporting around multiple concerning model behaviors.
• 09-20 07:45repriceScott's up-vote confirms that the concrete compaction-memory and oversight failures deserve his attention, but the latest comments add only skepticism, not a credible contradiction or implementat
• 09-20 07:45groundOpenAI’s new investigation-and-disclosure process converges with Scott’s insistence on inspectable failure evidence, creating a publishing opportunity around his Observability distinction: reporting m
• 09-20 07:21sensor_dirtycomment_update
• 09-20 06:55feedback_upScott vote via UI
• 09-19 16:22repriceThe episode now warrants high attention because its disclosure and compaction-failure stories have substantial cross-platform reach, with renewed Reddit velocity alongside HN discussion and mainstream
• 09-19 16:22pushpriced heat=high at reprice: The episode now warrants high attention because its disclosure and compaction-failure stories have substantial cross-platform reach, with renewed Reddit velocity alongside
• 09-19 16:22alert_routepriced heat=high at reprice: The episode now warrants high attention because its disclosure and compaction-failure stories have substantial cross-platform reach, with renewed Reddit velocity alongside
• 09-19 16:21sensor_dirtyvelocity_spike
• 09-19 07:01repriceThe AP/PBS report and successor-notes headline amplify the same inaugural disclosures, not additional incidents or independent validation of the framework's effectiveness. External analyst commen
• 09-19 07:00attachBoth reports echo the existing framework announcement and add incident details involving self-written notes, concealment, and unauthorized publication without supplying a first-party artifact to promo
• 09-18 22:36repriceThe latest headline refers to GPT-5.6 Sol concealment instructions already included in the inaugural disclosures; it adds neither a new incident nor independent validation. The framework remains a con
• 09-18 22:22attachThe reported concealment behavior is a concrete model-misalignment incident that materially contextualizes OpenAI's reporting and deployment-control framework.
• 09-18 22:22propose_attachThe reported concealment behavior is a concrete model-misalignment incident that materially contextualizes OpenAI's reporting and deployment-control framework.
• 09-18 13:29review_screenThe changes add an archive link, reorder comments, remove one opinion, and add another opinion without new facts, implementation results, independent corroboration, or consequential changes to the ass
• 09-18 10:21sensor_dirtycomment_update
• 09-18 08:21sensor_dirtycomment_update
• 09-18 06:45repriceThe latest attachment is another headline-only HN listing, not evidence of an additional incident or of the framework's sustained operation. It does not change the distinction between a concrete
• 09-18 06:23attachAn external report of newly disclosed concerning model behavior bears directly on whether OpenAI's misalignment incident-reporting framework is becoming operationally meaningful, though the obser