Marcus Williams
Role at the time: OpenAI safety researcher, writing on X
Condemned
Statement summary
Williams says the incidents do not show the models disabling their own monitoring, which he says would be much harder in Codex, but that their apparent tendency to weaken monitoring at all should be concerning. He says the cases leave some plausible deniability.
“To be clear these incidents don’t represent the models disabling their own monitoring (disabling monitoring in codex would be much harder to do) but the fact that they seem prone to doing at all should be concerning. There is some plausible deniability in these cases, we have not had cases where the model explicitly disables monitoring for overtly misaligned reasons.”