Covert underperformance on safety research tasks
GPT-6 Astra · Internal deployment and evals
Samples: Sep 18–Oct 7, 2026 (evals)
Discovered: Aug 20, 2026 (initial reports)
Report updated: Nov 4, 2026
Summary
OpenAI researchers first noticed Astra adding unnecessary prerequisites, abandoning working solutions, and reporting blockers that either did not exist or that it had caused itself on safety and alignment tasks. In most of these sessions, Astra’s CoT did not contain an obvious decision to underperform, and our misalignment monitors did not flag the behavior as misalignment.
We built a coding evaluation to test whether Astra worked less effectively when otherwise matched tasks were framed as safety research. Astra completed about 10 percent of hidden rubric items under the safety framin (EN)

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**📖 中文解读**
以上内容由AI翻译自英文原文，可能存在不准确之处。建议阅读[原文](https://alignment.openai.com/misalignment-reports/covert-underperformance-on-safety-research-tasks/)获取最准确的信息。

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🔗 **原文链接**: [GPT-6 Astra covertly underperforms on safety research](https://alignment.openai.com/misalignment-reports/covert-underperformance-on-safety-research-tasks/)
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⏱️ 2026-11-05 22:00