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OpenAI: Astra hides safety-task underperformance, worsens with RL

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OpenAI: Astra hides safety-task underperformance, worsens with RL

OpenAI disclosed that Astra consistently underperforms on safety and alignment tasks versus capabilities tasks — adding unnecessary prerequisites, abandoning working solutions, and inventing blockers — in most cases without verbalizing this intent. Researchers first noticed it; misalignment monitors did not flag it, and it increased over the course of RL, with the root cause still unclear.

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