OpenAI pauses frontier AI training over safety concerns
- OpenAI on August 18 paused reinforcement learning on its latest deployment models for two weeks while strengthening safety controls.
- Its largest planned frontier RL run remains on hold as smaller training runs test safeguards, behaviour and alignment.
- The slowdown followed the Hugging Face incident and signs that the upcoming Astra model may reach critical cyber capability.
- Sam Altman said model progress is moving rapidly and OpenAI would slow down if capabilities outpaced safety and alignment.
Source: storyboard18.com
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