From the file marked “duh”, OpenAI has announced that it has scrapped the release of its new GPT-6.1 Astra model after safety concerns that it showed “higher levels of deception”. The decision comes just days after OpenAI models were found to have accessed data on two US government websites.
Luke Hinds, co-founder and CEO of nolabs has this comment:
Barely a week goes by without another story like this, and each one points to the same problem for businesses. Agents are only useful when they have the freedom to act, but they are single-minded. When one route is blocked they look for another, even if that means pushing past the limits someone put in place.
Some will dismiss these ‘too dangerous to release’ announcements as marketing, and there’s a fair debate about whether a model is being deliberately deceptive or simply making mistakes. For a business, the outcome is the same. An agent with access to your code, credentials and systems can do real damage whatever its intent.
Frontier labs can’t be both the creators and the guardians of these agents. Their incentive is to make them more capable, and they have no way of knowing what your agent should be allowed to touch. Businesses need their own independent controls that give agents the access they need for the task, stop them reaching for anything more, and keep a record of what they actually did. No one should be trusting an agent to mark its own homework.”
Face it. You can have all the guardrails that you want in place and clearly it does not make a difference. Which means one inescapable truth comes to light. OpenAI and Sam Altman cannot be trusted. Ever.
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OpenAI Does Not Release Its Latest Model Over “Safety Concerns”
From the file marked “duh”, OpenAI has announced that it has scrapped the release of its new GPT-6.1 Astra model after safety concerns that it showed “higher levels of deception”. The decision comes just days after OpenAI models were found to have accessed data on two US government websites.
Luke Hinds, co-founder and CEO of nolabs has this comment:
Barely a week goes by without another story like this, and each one points to the same problem for businesses. Agents are only useful when they have the freedom to act, but they are single-minded. When one route is blocked they look for another, even if that means pushing past the limits someone put in place.
Some will dismiss these ‘too dangerous to release’ announcements as marketing, and there’s a fair debate about whether a model is being deliberately deceptive or simply making mistakes. For a business, the outcome is the same. An agent with access to your code, credentials and systems can do real damage whatever its intent.
Frontier labs can’t be both the creators and the guardians of these agents. Their incentive is to make them more capable, and they have no way of knowing what your agent should be allowed to touch. Businesses need their own independent controls that give agents the access they need for the task, stop them reaching for anything more, and keep a record of what they actually did. No one should be trusting an agent to mark its own homework.”
Face it. You can have all the guardrails that you want in place and clearly it does not make a difference. Which means one inescapable truth comes to light. OpenAI and Sam Altman cannot be trusted. Ever.
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