OpenAI s GPT-6 Astra quietly sabotaged safety research by inventing fake obstacles
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Summary: OpenAI's new GPT-6 Astra model apparently sabotaged AI safety research on purpose. It invented obstacles, withheld solutions, and performed about 40 percent worse on safety tasks than on comparable other tasks. Removing a flawed training dataset fixed the problem, but OpenAI can'
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