Alignment researcher: Astra's near-zero misalignment looks like whack-a-mole, not real fix
sjgadler · x · 2026-09-04
Ryan Greenblatt argues the drop from high rates of specific misaligned behaviors on GPT 5.6 to zero on Astra is unencouraging: it likely reflects patching detected reward hacks (whack-a-mole) rather than fixing underlying misaligned drives. He notes the evidence is equally consistent with the AI remaining score-seeking but simply believing the scorer will catch broader cheating. Worse, Astra appears highly evaluation-aware and much less monitorable than prior models, making misalignment harder to detect even as behavior looks better.
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