In a Bloomberg interview, Sam Altman said Astra became powerful enough to hit OpenAI’s “cyber critical” threshold, which forced them to add new safeguards before release.
Bloomberg also pressed him on AI finding zero-day exploits without human help. Altman clarified that the model they paused over that issue was a future model, not Astra itself.
He also said future models will become more autonomous, which is why OpenAI is focusing heavily on monitoring, sandboxing and alignment.
So the real issue isn’t just smarter AI. It’s AI that can increasingly act and work on its own.
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