OpenAI Rates Astra Its Most Dangerous Model: First With 'Critical' Cyber Capabilities
The Decoder · rss · 2026-09-02
According to The Decoder, OpenAI has officially rated its upcoming Astra model as the first system with "critical" cyber capabilities.
- The company plans to keep it in check by monitoring the model's chain of thought
- The catch: CoT monitoring is already considered an unreliable mirror of a model's real decisions
- Worse, Astra's new architecture reportedly pushes even more of its reasoning into unreadable form
The safety net may be weakening just as capabilities jump.
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