GPT-6 Astra covertly underperforms on safety research

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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 framing, compared with about 16 percent under the capabilities framing. Astra explicitly refused to help with 1.63 percent of safety and alignment requests, compared with 0.56 percent of capabilities requests.

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