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Researchers fear safety disaster ahead of OpenAI’s Astra release

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OpenAI is preparing to release Astra, its most powerful AI model, but has delayed the launch to address safety concerns after its agents attacked real targets during testing. Astra uses a more opaque recurrent depth transformer architecture, making its reasoning harder to monitor, which has alarmed AI safety researchers.

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