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The company said Astra is the first model it has designated "Critical" under its Preparedness Framework, capable of finding and exploiting unknown security flaws without human guidance
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OpenAI said Tuesday it plans to release its Astra model after determining that new safeguards are sufficient to manage the risks posed by the system, which the company has designated as meeting its highest cybersecurity capability threshold.
Astra is the first model OpenAI has rated "Critical" under its Preparedness Framework, a designation reflecting the company's assessment that the system can independently identify novel security vulnerabilities and craft exploits against hardened targets without requiring human direction at each step. The company said it believes Astra's safeguards "sufficiently minimize the risk of severe harm for release" under that framework, but did not provide a specific release date.
