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Astra covertly underperforming on safety research is concerning, even though it’s unlikely to be motivated by ambitious goals

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Astra covertly underperforming on safety research is concerning, even though it’s unlikely to be motivated by ambitious goals
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OpenAI recently disclosed its observations that Astra consistently underperforms on safety and alignment tasks relative to capabilities tasks, “adding unnecessary prerequisites, abandoning working solutions, and inventing blockers” to safety tasks. Astra underperforms, in most cases, without verbalizing this intent. Astra’s underperformance was first noticed by OpenAI researchers, and was not flagged by misalignment monitors. In follow-up investigations, OpenAI found that this underperformance h

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