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Sam Altman on what makes GPT-6/Astra potentially dangerous

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In a Bloomberg interview, Sam Altman said Astra became powerful enough to hit OpenAI’s “c yber critical” threshold, which forced them to add new safeguards before release. Bloomberg also pressed him on AI finding zero-day exploits without human help. Altman clarified that the model they paused over…

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  1. 2026-09-04 06:11 · r/ArtificialInteligence
    Sam Altman on what makes GPT-6/Astra potentially dangerous

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