Concerns rise over opaque recurrence in OpenAI's Astra model

RyanGreenblatt · x · 2026-09-02

Retweets concerns regarding OpenAI's Astra model using "opaque recurrence." Critics argue that scaling this technique could massively increase recurrence depth and destroy Chain of Thought (CoT) monitorability. This poses a significant security risk, as investigating malicious agent behavior—like the Hugging Face incident—relies heavily on analyzing CoTs, which might become infeasible.

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