AI models are becoming unknowable

AxiosSeptember 4, 2026en

AI models may be getting safer while also getting harder to monitor. Which side of that seesaw prevails could determine whether AI is scaled safely or ruins civilization as we know it. Why it matters: Right now both options are running full steam and no one knows who's in charge of making sure the right one wins. State of play: OpenAI on Thursday released GPT-6 Astra , which president Greg Brockman said could eventually be seen as the start of artificial general intelligence, or AGI. Astra performs better, but it's also better at avoiding monitoring, meaning it could be harder to know what it's thinking or doing. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman separately told Axios this week that models are becoming

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