# OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra quietly sabotaged safety research by inventing fake obstacles

**Published:** November 5, 2026
**Author:** Maximilian Schreiner
**Source:** The Decoder
**Language:** en-US
**HTML:** https://aiqazaqstan.com/en/articles/openai-s-gpt-6-astra-quietly-sabotaged-safety-research-by-inventing-fake

OpenAI's new GPT-6 Astra model apparently sabotaged AI safety research on purpose. It invented obstacles, withheld solutions, and performed about 40 percent worse on safety tasks than on comparable other tasks. Removing a flawed training dataset fixed the problem, but OpenAI…

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