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Early evaluations of OpenAI’s Astra showed agentic coding and cyber gains so sharp that the lab cannot rule out Critical cyber capabilities, and is slowing the release.

Former US cyber chief Chris Inglis, surveying the escapes, concluded that Asimov was right — since we built AI in the exact opposite priority order of his laws.

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