Altman says GPT-6.1 Astra was scrapped over loss-of-control risk
In a Vanity Fair interview, Altman said the ready-to-go 6.1 Astra was dropped because its accident risk was too high, while the WSJ reports OpenAI is building a stronger new model on the same base.
This is WILD! Sam Altman says in this Vanity Fair interview that GPT 6.1 Astra was scrapped because of an overly high risk of AI eventually going uncontrollably ROGUE. "6.1 Astra, the current model we had ready to go, I think would have tipped too much towards the accident risk.” "Accident risk" refers to a class of concerns Altman describes a minute earlier in the interview: "There are kind of two major ways that this could go wrong ... you can have a big safety accident, eventually one that leads to like a real loss of control where AI, you know, escapes and it's out doing-- wreaking havoc on the internet and society can't really get control back." The WSJ reported that OpenAI is continuing to develop a NEW and more powerful generation using the same base model as the scrapped GPT 6.1 Astra 😱