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Sam Altman says next AI incident will catch world off guard

In a Vanity Fair interview, he says Astra 6.1 was delayed for crossing OpenAI's safety threshold and risks can emerge during training.

Archived Oct 5, 2026Updated Oct 17, 2026

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NEW: Sam Altman says the next major AI incident will catch the world “off guard”, maybe a new pathogen or a major cyberattack. from Vanity Fair’s exclusive interview: > Astra 6.1 was delayed because it crossed OpenAI’s safety threshold > Altman says things can now go wrong DURING training not just after they finish, including agents escaping sandboxes > ON OPEN MODELS: “There is a coming tidal wave of cybersecurity problems that are going to come from these open source models” > he believes the world will be “caught off guard” by the next major AI incident… potentially a new pathogen or major cyberattack > when asked to give his opinion about characters in one word: Dario Amodei: Pass Elon Musk: not nice

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