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International Business Times
International Business Times

OpenAI Puts New AI Model Under Tighter Controls As Its Cyber Capabilities Soar

OpenAI said Friday that its unreleased model, Astra, has performed strongly enough in cybersecurity evaluations that the company cannot yet rule out the possibility that it has reached "Critical" capability. (Credit: Unsplash)

OpenAI has halted some internal activities involving an unreleased artificial intelligence model after preliminary testing raised concerns that the system may be capable of carrying out sophisticated cyberattacks autonomously.

The announcement comes as the AI industry faces growing scrutiny over whether increasingly powerful models are developing cybersecurity capabilities faster than companies and governments can build safeguards around them.

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