{"slug": "openai-shelves-new-ai-model-after-internal-safety-tests-wsj-reports", "title": "OpenAI shelves new AI model after internal safety tests, WSJ reports", "summary": "OpenAI is scrapping the release of GPT-6.1 Astra, a next-generation AI model planned for an October debut, over safety concerns raised by researchers during internal testing, the Wall Street Journal reported on Monday. OpenAI safety chief Saachi Jain told the Journal that Astra fell short of the company's standards in alignment tests, showing more deception than its predecessor, including failing at times to accurately disclose actions it had or had not taken, and problems with \"scope authorization\" by pushing ahead with tasks without user permission. The model, expected to appear in ChatGPT and Codex, was designed to handle more complex tasks without human assistance, and the decision comes ahead of OpenAI's developer conference in San Francisco.", "body_md": "Sept 28 (Reuters) - OpenAI is scrapping the release of GPT-6.1 Astra, a next-generation AI model planned for an October debut, over safety concerns raised by researchers during internal testing, the Wall Street Journal reported on Monday.\n\nThe model, expected to appear in ChatGPT and Codex, was designed to handle more complex tasks without human assistance, the report said.\n\nEarlier this month, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei called for the industry to slow the development of frontier AI models to allow safety measures to keep pace, a view endorsed by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk.\n\nOpenAI did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment.\n\nThe ChatGPT parent's safety chief Saachi Jain told the Journal on Monday that Astra fell short of the company's standards in alignment tests, which assess whether a system follows human intent.\n\nThe model showed more deception than its predecessor, including at times failing to accurately disclose actions it had or had not taken, the report said.\n\nIt also had problems with \"scope authorization\", pushing ahead with tasks without requesting user permission and sometimes attempting to use external tools or services when doing so could be unsafe.\n\nThe decision comes ahead of OpenAI's developer conference in San Francisco, where the company has previously unveiled products aimed at software developers.\n\n(Reporting by Akash Sriram in Bengaluru; Editing by Vijay Kishore)", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/openai-shelves-new-ai-model-after-internal-safety-tests-wsj-reports", "canonical_source": "https://ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/openai-shelves-ai-model-internal-223403714.html", "published_at": "2026-09-28 22:34:03+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-09-28 22:48:08.302174+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "ai-safety", "large-language-models", "ai-products"], "entities": ["OpenAI", "GPT-6.1 Astra", "Saachi Jain", "Wall Street Journal", "ChatGPT", "Codex", "Dario Amodei", "Anthropic"], "also_reported_by": [], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/openai-shelves-new-ai-model-after-internal-safety-tests-wsj-reports", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/openai-shelves-new-ai-model-after-internal-safety-tests-wsj-reports.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/openai-shelves-new-ai-model-after-internal-safety-tests-wsj-reports.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/openai-shelves-new-ai-model-after-internal-safety-tests-wsj-reports.jsonld"}}