How we detect frontier model misalignment · 2026-10-29
OpenAI’s official October 29 post describes layered monitoring: activation probes, reviewers of reasoning and tool use, and investigative agents examining complete transcripts before escalation to humans. It distinguishes replay of an older sandbox escape from a live DNS-misconfiguration incident detected in September. The post reports detection within 15 minutes for the latter. This is incident-specific detection evidence, not a prevention guarantee. The article endpoint returned 403; this brief is limited to the readable first-party announcement.