# "OpenAI Shares Some Alignment Problems" by Zvi

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Published: 2026-07-22T13:58:34+00:00
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## Resource

Kudos to OpenAI for sharing their recent experiences with a misaligned internal model, where they encountered problems sufficiently severe they were forced to take the model offline to work on new mitigations and defense-to-depth. And also further kudos for actually taking the model offline for a time to build new safeguards. They gave us one hell of a candid report. The tone is professional throughout, whereas my reaction reading it was less professional and more this: Wit...

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