[ExI] OpenAI Says It Will Not Release Newest A.I. Model Over Safety Concerns

[John Clark]

On Tue, Sep 29, 2026 at 12:35 PM Jason Resch via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

* >>>  I think it's just their marketing strategy.*
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>> *>> Could you clarify what you mean by that? *
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> *> It excites their investors to hear "Our AI is so good, we can't even
> release it."*
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*A senior researcher from open AI, Jacob Coxon recently resigned, and said
goodbye to tens of millions and perhaps hundreds of millions in stock
options, because he said the company was not paying enough attention to
safety. Do you think he did this for some convoluted Machiavellian
reason?  *

* > And it is also a convenient catch-all excuse when they run behind their
> planned release schedule.*


*Given the huge advance in AI capabilities made in just the last three
months, I don't think any AI company needs to make up excuses for slow
progress.  *



> *>>  Regardless of what the motivations of AI companies are for saying
>> what they're saying, do you think AI is unlikely to produce changes to our
>> civilization of unprecedented size?  *
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> *> Where did it appear I said that?*
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*I wasn't accusing you of anything, I just didn't understand your position,
and I still don't.  *


> * > they're are doing a disservice to those trying to get things done for
> AI safety.*
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*Open AI said they decided not to release their most advanced AI model and
renounce billions of dollars of revenue in the proces, (a rather poor
marketing strategy in my humble opinion) because they didn't want a repeat
of the hugging face incident, or something much worse. And they told
everybody why they were not releasing it. But you are unhappy with OpenAI's
actions. So what do you think they should've done instead? Should they have
released the model anyway? Should they have quietly killed it but kept
top secret the reason why? I'm not trying to put words in your mouth, I
just don't understand exactly what your complaint is.*

*John K Clark*





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>>> On Tue, Sep 29, 2026, 7:55 AM John Clark via extropy-chat <
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>>>> Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for
>>>> free without a subscription.
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>>>> OpenAI Says It Will Not Release Newest A.I. Model Over Safety Concerns
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>>>> The company’s researchers raised questions about the security of the
>>>> model, known as GPT-6.1 Astra.
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>>>> https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/28/technology/openai-astra-safety.html?unlocked_article_code=1.E1E.s0GM.WjUmxr83iqqM&smid=em-share
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