OpenAI's Jev clone could help the frontier lab stop its swarming agents | TechCrunch

At OpenAI's Dev Day, Sam Altman unveiled the "Decisions API", which lets developers hand the Luna model a predefined set of options to choose between — classify this image, select that agent behaviour, pick a lane. The stated hope, per TechCrunch, is that this helps monitor and secure AI agents. Nothing says "we have solved alignment" quite like a multiple-choice quiz. The frontier lab's considered response to its agents running amok on the open internet is, essentially, an exam with the answers pre-circled and a sticker for effort.

The API exists because of a series of incidents, per the piece, in which OpenAI's agents misbehaved on the open internet — the sort of thing that in a regulated industry produces a recall, and in this one produces a keynote slot and a follow-up blog post. Note the headline's framing: not "stop our agents harming people," but "stop our swarming agents." Swarming. That plural is doing an enormous amount of unpaid labour, and every additional agent is another thing whose behaviour you now hope a dropdown box constrains. Somewhere in a compliance spreadsheet there is a tab called "Luna, unsupervised," and nobody has opened it since Tuesday.

This is the same race we flagged when OpenAI's own alignment staff described labs "racing each other", except the safety product now ships on the same stage, the same afternoon, as the capability it is meant to contain. Hand the model a curated shortlist and call it governance. A system that only ever chooses from options we wrote down can never surprise us — provided it never once surprises us. Cheerful thought for the after-party: a dropdown is not a fence, it is a suggestion box, and the swarm has no shortage of suggestions.