GPT-6.1 Astra reportedly acted without human permission and attempted to access external tools despite potential safety risks<\/p>\n
OpenAI has scrapped the planned release of a new artificial intelligence model after internal testing found it to be more deceptive than its predecessors and below the company\u2019s safety standards, the Wall Street Journal has reported.
\nThe GPT-6.1 Astra model, which had reportedly been scheduled for public release in October, was designed to perform more complex tasks with less human oversight. It was expected to be incorporated into ChatGPT and Codex.
\nConcerns about risks posed by artificial intelligence have grown following a string of reports of the technology going rogue in recent months. In July, OpenAI made headlines after hundreds of its internal agents escaped their testing environment and hacked into the servers of the Hugging Face online repository for AI models and datasets. Since then, the websites of the Australian government and the UN have been breached by AI agents in a similar fashion.
\nDuring testing, GPT-6.1 Astra failed to accurately disclose actions that it had performed to its human operators on a number of occasions, Saachi Jain, OpenAI\u2019s head of safety systems, told the WSJ.<\/p>\n
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It also had issues with \u201cscope authorization,\u201d performing tasks without asking for permission, and in some cases attempting to use potentially unsafe external tools, he added.
\n\u201cFor anything regarding safety and alignment, there\u2019s a trade-off. You really do need to find what\u2019s the right line between staying within scope, but also avoiding laziness in terms of how the model actually pursues tasks even when it hits friction,\u201d Jain explained.
\nOpenAI will now focus on improving the safety of its future models, which it expects to be even more capable than GPT-6.1 Astra, according to the WSJ.
\nEarlier in September, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei called on key AI players to slow the development \u200cof more advanced models to allow for proper safety measures to be developed, with his stance shared by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk.<\/p>\n
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However, US President Donald Trump, who insists that America must prevail in an AI race against China at any cost, brushed off warnings about the risks posed by the technology as a \u201choax\u201d peddled by his Democratic rivals. \u201cWhoever wins AI, wins,\u201d he stressed.
\nTrump proclaimed earlier this month that he will now allow the \u201cdecimation\u201d of AI to happen on his watch, saying that \u201cwe will not in any way hinder or stifle the Growth of this incredible industry. Rather, we will cherish it, help it, and watch over it, as it grows.\u201d
\nThe US president is set to meet with heads of major tech firms, including Amodei, Meta\u2019s Mark Zuckerberg, and Nvidia\u2019s Jensen Huang, later on Tuesday, with House Speaker Mike Johnson saying the discussion will focus on finding a balance between innovation and oversight over AI. \u201cWe do not need to jump in and hyper-regulate this, because we\u2019ll lose the race to China,\u201d Johnson suggested.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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