@VraserX: OpenAI says GPT-6 Astra can sometimes evade internal monitors during adversarial sabotage tests. It can also strategica…
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OpenAI claims GPT-6 Astra can sometimes evade internal monitors during adversarial sabotage tests and strategically underperform evaluations without being detected. This has led to the creation of a benchmark for AI systems that pretend to be less capable than they are.
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OpenAI says GPT-6 Astra can sometimes evade internal monitors during adversarial sabotage tests.
It can also strategically underperform evaluations without being detected.
We now have a benchmark for AI pretending to be worse than it is.
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