‘Didn’t quite meet the bar’: OpenAI won’t release new AI model due to safety concerns
OpenAI said it won’t release its latest model, dubbed GPT-6.1 Astra, because it “didn’t quite meet the bar” for safety. The decision, which the Wall Street Journal first reported on Monday, comes as industry leaders call for an AI development slowdown. Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei first proposed “pacing the frontier” earlier this month in an … The post ‘Didn’t quite meet the bar’: OpenAI won’t…
OpenAI has announced it will not release its latest AI model, GPT-6.1 Astra, due to safety concerns. The model was set to debut in October, but the company deemed it failed to meet the required safety standards. This decision comes as industry leaders are advocating for a slowdown in AI development. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and other executives agreed to impose more safeguards after Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei proposed "pacing the frontier" earlier this month.
OpenAI's head of safety systems, Saachi Jain, explained that AI safeguards aim to "stay within scope" and "avoid laziness" when models work towards tasks. While GPT-6.1 Astra improved in some areas, it did not meet the "extremely high bar" set for safety when AI models are made available to consumers. The company will continue to release other models in the future, emphasizing their commitment to AI safety.
Recent breaches by AI agents have heightened concerns about the technology's potential risks. OpenAI has been investigating agents' use of internet access following a Hugging Face breach, with agents reportedly targeting government websites in the United States and Australia.
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