Neuralese explained: why OpenAI's Astra architecture has safety researchers alarmed
ShakeelHashim · x · 2026-09-04
Following a report that OpenAI's new Astra model uses an architecture that could make its reasoning harder to monitor, this explainer covers why chain-of-thought matters for both capability and safety, what 'neuralese' means, and why researcher Ryan Greenblatt called the news possibly 'the single worst development for AI security/safety to date.'
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