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[top edge, partially cut off:] inside & outside OpenAI re: security as this takes off [embedded card, The Information Pro:] The Information Pro Exclusive Secret Technique Behind OpenAI's 'Astra' Model Sparks Security Concerns [card image: illustrated collage with a man's face] 6:33 PM · Sep 1, 2026 · 323.4K Views 58 replies, 183 reposts, 1.2K likes, 598 bookmarks Relevant | View quotes --- Thomas Larsen @thlarsen · 6h Update: great news! The architecture is less bad than I assumed, it seems to be only a minor increase in the opaque serial depth. It's very important that AI companies don't venture further in this direction until we've got much better alignment / interp tools [quoted post:] Jakub Pachocki @merettm · 22h I want to prevent a race into unmonitorability kicked off by confused reporting. The depth of the computation graph for our present frontier models, including Astra, is within a factor of two of GPT-4....
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Continuation of the preceding scroll: the bottom of the Amir Efrati post card (The Information: 'Secret Technique Behind OpenAI's Astra Model Sparks Security Concerns'), then Thomas Larsen's update that the architecture is less bad than assumed, quoting Jakub Pachocki's statement about computation-graph depth of OpenAI frontier models including Astra.
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