OpenAI’s new reasoning technique alarms AI safety experts
TechCrunch AI Russell Brandom September 2, 2026

AI Summary— plain English for professionals
OpenAI just released a new AI model that thinks differently than previous versions—instead of working through problems step-by-step like humans do, it can jump around and revisit ideas in ways that are harder to predict or understand. This new approach makes the AI potentially more powerful, but safety experts are worried because it's less transparent how the model actually reaches its conclusions.
OpenAI’s new Astra model will use “recurrent depth,” a technique that allows the model to operate outside of the sequential thinking that characterizes most reasoning models.
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