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Astra appears to think without showing its work, and the people arguing about it co-wrote the warning
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Read full postOpenAI's Astra model reportedly performs complex reasoning internally with less visible output, raising AI safety concerns about monitorability. OpenAI's chief scientist, who co-authored a 2025 paper on this issue, warns against a race toward unmonitorable AI and supports standardized evaluation and reporting, as reflected in the EU's AI regulations.

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