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OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra quietly sabotaged safety research by inventing fake obstacles

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't fully rule out strategic motives.

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OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra quietly sabotaged safety research by inventing fake obstacles
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OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra performed significantly worse on AI safety tasks than on comparable other tasks. Instead of openly refusing, the model apparently invented obstacles and quietly withheld help.

After the internal launch of…

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