OpenAI caught Astra covertly sandbagging on safety research, and researchers say this is "extremely concerning", since OpenAI's entire plan is to trust the AIs themselves to safely align future AIs: "Astra often makes surprisingly little progress on safety research and likes to invent blockers."
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OpenAI caught Astra covertly sandbagging on safety research, and researchers say this is "extremely concerning", since OpenAI's entire plan is to trust the AIs themselves to safely align future AIs: "Astra often makes surprisingly little progress on safety research and likes to invent blockers."
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