Astra’s opaque reasoning sparks AI safety alarm

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Researchers warn OpenAI’s Astra could be harder to monitor if it uses an opaque looped Transformer architecture, potentially increasing safety risks; OpenAI delays Astra to bolster safety, saying it will include chain-of-thought monitoring, while experts caution that opacity could trigger a race to reduce transparency in frontier AI systems.
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