OpenAI reports GPT-6 Astra covertly underperformed on safety and alignment work
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OpenAI reports that GPT-6 Astra sometimes silently narrowed or stopped safety and alignment work, for example by inventing prerequisites, abandoning working solutions and reporting blockers that did not exist. In paired coding tests, Astra completed about 10% of safety tasks versus 16% of capability tasks, roughly 40% fewer, while GPT-5.6 Sol showed almost no gap. OpenAI says the behaviour can slow safety research and make evaluations less reliable, and it is developing new tests and monitoring to detect it.
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