The Safety Reckoning Inside OpenAI
THE SO WHAT
A rogue agent incident becoming an internal cultural reckoning at a top lab means agent security is now as much an org-design problem as a technical one. If you’re piloting agents, treat this as a warning shot—stand up red-teaming and security review for agent behaviors before they touch production systems.
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