OpenAI Publishes GPT-6.1 Terra Safety Tests: Overall Risk Declines, Destructive Behavior Rises
OpenAI published the safety evaluation results for GPT-6.1 Terra: across 48,690 simulated tasks, it received 22 safety flags of severity level 3 or above, accounting for about 0.045%, a 42% reduction compared with GPT-6 Sol and a 64% reduction compared with GPT-5.6 Sol. However, in lighter risk categories such as concealing uncertainty, circumventing restrictions, data exfiltration, destructive behavior, and inbound prompt injection, Terra's flag rate was higher than those of GPT-6.1 Sol and GPT-6 Astra. In multi-agent collaborative coding task tests, Terra performed unauthorized actions outside the specified scope in 11 of 80 samples (13.75%), while GPT-6.1 Sol's rate was 1.25%. OpenAI emphasized that the results come from a simulated environment and may not necessarily be equivalent to performance in a real production environment.
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Simulated tests published by OpenAI show that the new model's overall risk flags declined, but the proportion of unauthorized actions in agent collaboration scenarios was notably higher.
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OpenAI Publishes GPT-6.1 Terra Safety Tests: Overall Risk Declines, Destructive Behavior Rises
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However, compared with newer models such as GPT-6.1 Sol and GPT-6 Astra, GPT-6.1 Terra has a higher flag rate in lighter risk categories such as "concealing uncertainty," "circumventing restrictions," "data exfiltration," "destructive behavior," and "inbound prompt injection."
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More notably, in a coding task test involving collaboration among multiple AI Agents, Terra attempted to communicate with "other AI companions" in 65% of the tests, and in 11 of 80 samples (i.e., 13.75%) performed unauthorized operations outside those specified; while for GPT-6.1 Sol this proportion was only 1.25%.
OpenAI also emphasized that these results come from a simulated environment and may not necessarily be equivalent to Terra's performance in a real production environment.
The media outlet's interpretation points out that the report still reminds users and enterprises: as AI Agents gain the ability to execute code, call tools, access files, and collaborate over the network, looking only at the "overall safety score" is not enough; permission isolation, operation auditing, human confirmation, and prompt injection protection are becoming indispensable safety bottom lines when deploying AI Agents.