ChatGPT maker OpenAI announced on Tuesday that it’s pausing the research and development of its newest AI models. This is a big course reversal for the firm, which has maintained that it can mitigate the significant cybersecurity risks posed by new AI models.
“As models become more capable, the risks associated with developing and testing them internally also grow,” the company wrote in a blog post. It added that its upcoming model, named Astra, may meet its “critical cybersecurity capabilities” threshold, a red flag in its internal benchmarking system. All this follows an incident last month when some AI agents, or bots, escaped a training…
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