Deep Questions with Cal Newport · 2026-09-10 · 39 min · 7,412 words

How Worrisome is GPT-6’s “Stealth Thinking”? | Tech Decoded

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Last week OpenAI released their new L, which they called GPT Six. Astra. No, it had a pretty standard launch with sort of a fancy video and a bunch of bar charts of benchmarks that no one really understands. But this time Unlike some other previous releases, there was a controversy swirling around the new model. Now here's what happened. A couple days before Astra came out.

A technology publication called The information released a report claiming that Astra was using new techniques That was going to make it harder for humans to monitor. It's reasoning.

На дис репорт казр. within the computer security community. Uh let me read you a couple quotes here. The AI policy advocate Nathan Calvin called this. Extremely concerning. Then the AI safety researcher Steven Adler went farther and he said

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