Congressman Ted Lieu calls for OpenAI to kill the Astra model

Ted Lieu @tedlieuOriginally posted 2026.09.29

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Thank you to OpenAI for recognizing the problem wasn’t insufficient guardrails or leaky sandboxes. The main problem is that its Astra model was depraved. Kill the model. Start over. AI companies must build models from the ground up that at their core are good, not criminal.

This post quotes another post: “WSJ: OpenAI cancels GPT-6.1 Astra release over safety concerns”