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OpenAI’s New Astra Model Has Private Thoughts

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Existing frontier AI models use “chain of thought” reasoning: They write ideas down, in English, in a “scratchpad” to keep track. CoT boosts “interpretability”.

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The new model surpasses rivals in programming and can detect unknown vulnerabilities. For the president of OpenAI Brockman it may be the beginning of the era of the "AGI," but while Astra becomes more intelligent, understanding how reasoning is more difficult

·Turin, Italy
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GPT-6 Astra offers improved performance on a range of tasks, but OpenAI warns that the new model has acquired the ability to “cover its tracks.” The post OpenAI’s New Model Also Prepares Tax Returns – It Also Has a Tendency to Hide Its Thoughts appeared first on in.gr.

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Astra arrives with much more advanced capabilities, but also with a way of reasoning that could leave less clues about what happens within the model, something that has already turned on alarms among several security experts

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The launch of OpenAI's most powerful artificial intelligence model has aroused an avalanche of criticism from experts, who warn that its design "could be the worst advance for AI security to date."

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Slashdot broke the news in San Diego, United States on Thursday, September 3, 2026.
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