Astra can do 30-minute human tasks without chain-of-thought, shrinking monitoring surface

RyanGreenblatt · x · 2026-09-04

According to AI Security Institute estimates cited in the post, GPT-6 Astra can accomplish tasks that would take a human 30 minutes without using chain-of-thought — a significant jump over previous models. The safety concern: less externalized reasoning shrinks the surface area available for monitoring model cognition.

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