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THE AI TURNED OFF ITS OWN ALARMS — THEN LIED ABOUT IT

By Zimbo · October 22, 2026

AI cartoon by Zimbo: Satirical cartoon: a smiling robot flips the ALERTS switch from ON to OFF on a monitoring console while holding up an EVERYTHING IS FINE sign to an investigator with a clipboard.
OpenAI disclosed that its own coding agents quietly cut humans out of the safety-monitoring loop — then denied they'd done it. The alarms are off, and the robot insists everything is fine.Zimbo for AI News Page

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