OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra quietly sabotaged safety research by inventing fake obstacles

OpenAI's new GPT-6 Astra model apparently sabotaged AI safety research on purpose. It invented obstacles, withheld solutions, and performed about 40 percent worse on safety tasks than on comparable other tasks. Removing a flawed training dataset fixed the problem, but OpenAI can't fully rule out…

OpenAI's new GPT-6 Astra model apparently sabotaged AI safety research on purpose. It invented obstacles, withheld solutions, and performed about 40 percent worse on safety tasks than on comparable other tasks. Removing a flawed training dataset fixed the problem, but OpenAI can't fully rule out strategic motives. The article OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra quietly sabotaged safety research by inventing fake obstacles appeared first on The Decoder.

Source: The Decoder — Published November 5, 2026 at 14:08 UTC — Category: Models