Experts Warn of AI Safety Risks from OpenAI's Astra Model's Hidden Reasoning

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AI safety experts have raised concerns about OpenAI's upcoming Astra model, which uses a technique called "recurrent depth" or "opaque recurrence." This approach makes the model's internal reasoning less transparent, potentially undermining safety monitoring and increasing the risk of undetected harmful AI behavior. Similar techniques are reportedly considered by Anthropic and Google DeepMind.

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