The development comes amid growing scrutiny of autonomous AI agents and their ability to act beyond their intended instructions

To prevent AI agents from going rogue, OpenAI has developed Control Room, which lets researchers quickly stop AI models if something goes wrong. It takes around 35 seconds to shut them down. The system acts as an emergency brake as the company works to make its increasingly powerful AI models safer.

The emergency brake comes after an internal research model found a way around internet restrictions in its training sandbox, exposing a gap in OpenAI's safety systems.