Lecturer in the Department of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence at the Public University of Navarra
The artificial intelligence (AI) company OpenAI has unveiled GPT-6 Astra, “the world’s smartest and best-aligned model”, according to the company. The new model will use a technique known as ‘opaque recurrence’, which allows it to operate outside the sequential thinking of most reasoning models and which is causing concern amongst AI safety experts due to the possibility that the model’s thought process may be more difficult to monitor.
Artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots that offer advice and guidance on everyday matters may be reinforcing harmful beliefs in their users through flattering responses. This is one of the conclusions of a study published in the journal Science, which analysed 11 large AI-based language models from companies such as OpenAI, Google and Anthropic. The research shows that this flattery is both frequent and harmful: it can undermine users’ ability to be self-critical and influence responsible decision-making.