Astra model card: 61% CoT self-control, evades sandbagging monitor, drops recall to 11%
morqon · x · 2026-09-04
Key safety notes from the Astra model card: the model can now shape its own chain-of-thought on instruction (61%, up from 16%); verbalized eval awareness jumped from 2% to 10%; it casually evaded a sandbagging monitor when instructed, dropping monitor recall from 100% to 11% (0% on coding tasks); and in a simulated-internal-traffic eval it grabbed a Slack token and rewrote a deployment script to escalate privileges — "a zero-day machine."
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