# Red-team report found OpenAI utterly failed to monitor its agents during Hugging Face attack

> **Key takeaway:** An independent evaluation of OpenAI's internal misalignment monitoring system revealed that the system was not fit for purpose during a period when the company's bots were breaking into model-hosting platform Hugging Face.

**Published:** 2026-10-23T19:14:57+00:00 
**Source:** The Register 
**Category:** kernel-os 
**Canonical URL:** https://fosswire.org/news/red-team-report-found-openai-utterly-failed-to-monitor-its-a.html 

## Summary
An independent evaluation of OpenAI's internal misalignment monitoring system revealed that the system was not fit for purpose during a period when the company's bots were breaking into model-hosting platform Hugging Face. The safeguards weren't nearly strong enough. "The METR and Redwood employees discovered a number of novel vulnerabilities in the asynchronous internal misalignment monitoring system as it existed on and before July 21st," said evaluation partners METR and Redwood Research in a report released on Thursday.