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The way that OpenAI is framing Astra
is basically an early step toward AGI, but

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I thought we could start a conversation
just with basically what's fundamentally

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different with Astra relative
to prior generations of model.

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It feels, first of all,
thank you for having me.

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It feels like a new step in this process
towards models that can really help us

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create value, do work, uh, discover new
science, help us create help, start new

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companies or create new products.
Using it subjectively feels to me very

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different than any model before.
What's the kind of principal use case

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that's different this time around?
You know, I think we can get into the

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generations of model that
we're very coding focused.

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I know a lot of the development was very
cybersecurity focused, but taking it

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away from the software engineer, what
is the everyday person unlocking AI that

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they weren't able to do previously?
One thing that I think people will

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immediately notice is if you have
an idea and you want to work interactively

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with an AI to get, uh, you know,
a complex piece of a whole piece of

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software built.
This is the first model to me where I

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could sort of tell someone,
like, just give it a try.

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There's. There's a good chance it'll work.

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And, you know, I've watched
people make computer games.

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I watch people do sort of like home sort
of DIY electrical engineering projects.

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Uh, I've watched people do very complex
simulations for some piece of science

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they're working on. Uh,
certainly a lot of the work where

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you would sort of normally sit down
and have to, you know, build a financial

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model here and then a PowerPoint
presentation around it and then figure

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out how to, like, make a little
interactive piece of code to sort of try

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different simulations.
That stuff is it's all so doable now.

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Um, what I hope will happen is people
I think people will be surprised at the

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beginning, but then as they build up
more trust in the model and more like,

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wow, I can really do this.
Just start throwing harder and harder

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tasks and more creative ideas at it.
And uh, they will find out what the

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model can really do for them.
So the specifics of how Astra's being

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released. I think it's
important so that a version

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of it with specific guardrails.
Um, what was the thinking behind that

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and what are those specific guardrails,
uh, in this early release of it?

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Yeah. So the the challenge
of our industry is

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that we have these models that are
getting incredibly capable and

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incredibly useful and that people want
to use to everything from, you know,

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make their lives a little
easier to starting new companies.

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And then, on the other hand, as these
models get more capable, um, the risks

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that we have to mitigate,
uh, also become more serious.

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The models could do more damage if we
don't, um, if we don't do a good job at

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that. And so we have spent, uh, you know,

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obviously this model took us a little
longer to release than we were hoping.

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I think it'll be worth the wait, but we
really wanted to spend the time on the

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safety and security
alignment of this model.

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Yes. Um, and I think
as people understand the

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power and impact and capabilities, they
will be, they will be happy that we did.

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Um, we will, uh, we'll have different
tiers of cyber access for this model,

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for cyber in particular.
Today we're rolling it out, uh, to

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Trusted Access Partners.
And then in the coming days, assuming

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everything goes well,
we'll roll it out more broadly.

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Um, you couldn't say.

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Well, you know, if this model is,
you know, has a cyber problem, why let

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anyone use it for cyber?
And I think it's very important to note,

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to note that the world is very close
to a complete change in the landscape of

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cyber attacks, and the only way that we
see for society to collectively defend

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itself against this coming wave of models,
um, from around the world and

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from other companies, is to use tools
like Astra to rapidly defend against

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these new kind of cyber threats.
Um, so we will have multiple programs,

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uh, for people with sort of different
levels of verification and trust.

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But we do think it's quite important
that the world use these models to, uh,

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collectively defend ourselves.
What happened prior to release is

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important, right?
You determined that Astra can find and

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develop zero day exploits without
any human intervention, essentially.

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And so you paused some of the work
to strengthen the safeguards.

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What specifically was it that you saw
that made you hit pause the behavior, I

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suppose, of the model.
So it's worth pointing out that, um, the

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model that we're
launching today is GPT six.

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Astra has been done training for a while.

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Um, the model that we recently talked
about pausing, uh, as a future model.

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Um, but with Astra,
we we did hit cyber critical.

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And there that required, under
our preparedness framework, a new set of

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safeguards just to be able to release
Astra, um, because of those cyber

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capabilities you talked about.
I got a lot of questions for you, Sam,

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about Astra and chain of thought.
Um, I don't know if that comes as a

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surprise to you or not, but as Astra
becomes more autonomous for future

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generations of the model,
become more autonomous, can open.

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I sort of say with confidence that you
see and understand what the model is

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planning before it acts.
In other words, you have visibility into

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the reasoning that basically
uses of the model can't see open.

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I can for obvious reasons.
Could you go into that a little bit?

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Yeah. So we have talked
for a long time about

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the importance of monitor
ability of models.

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We've also said that we believe
in defense in depth and this is only one

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part of it. There is sandboxing.

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Uh, maybe most importantly
there is alignment.

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There are a number of things that come
together to be able to make the safety

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guarantees that we want to be
able to make with a model.

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But monitor ability is an important thing.

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And we've been talking, I think,
for well over a year now about the

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importance of chain of thought
monitoring and how we have made various

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decisions there that help us preserve
chain of thought vulnerability.

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Um, even if it means we don't maximize
the capabilities we could otherwise get.

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And we think that is important.
Um, it's an important component.

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We also, uh, we want to be clear.
We don't think it's the only component

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that matters.
We live on Bloomberg Television and on

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Bloomberg Radio, and we're speaking
to Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI.

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Um, you know, there's a lot of bad PR in
the world around AI at the moment, every

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day citizen sort
of worry about the impact.

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One way I kind of wanted
to put that to you.

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Is it whether you can say sort
of unequivocally there, if Astra or any

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future generation of all behaved in a
way that was dangerous, that you would

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be able to detect it
and then shut it down.

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The obvious hard part of that, uh,
question is that people have different

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opinions about what model should be
able to do and shouldn't be able to do.

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Yes, we think there are some things that
very clearly model should not be able to

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do. Uh, there are some
clear red lines, and

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we talk a lot about being
able to detect those.

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But people also have strong opinions
about things within the broad bounds of

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what is possible about how they use AI
and or how they want to be able to use

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AI. And this is going to be a difficult

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question for society, because there
is not going to be agreement on, you know,

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what is and isn't acceptable use of I.
I think it's very important in the same

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way that, you know, people do things
electricity that I may not always like,

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but I think everybody has a right to
electricity that we say, you know, there

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going to be some rules for society.
You can't go like electrocute somebody

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else on the street.
But this is an important platform that

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belongs to all of us and that we
need to be able to, to use.

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So there will be, uh, ongoing
conversation, negotiation in society.

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There will, of course, be some things
that we agree on that people just should

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not do with. I.

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But there's a lot of edges that we're
now going to have to feel our way

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through. And giving
people autonomy and freedom

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to use AI is important to our mission.
Sam at the G20 this week, um, Treasury

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Secretary Scott Besson said that the eye
industry had done a terrible job of

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explaining how AI benefits
ordinary Americans.

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What's your view of that and whether you
would, on reflection, consider OpenAI to

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be in that bucket? Uh,
I think the industry has done a

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terrible job of this on the whole,
um, I think we have done

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a bad job ourselves, uh, you know,
maybe better than some others.

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Worse than some others. Um,
it is difficult, of course, to

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explain, but this is, uh, we eat the
world, in my opinion, should want us to

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worry a lot about this technology.
The world should want us to think about

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all the ways that could go wrong.
To talk about what we see coming, but

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not to sort of, like, stir up doom
or concentrate power for ourselves.

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Just because in the history of technology,
the way you solve the hard

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problems is to look at them,
talk clearly about them, have scientists

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debate them, uh, work really
hard to prevent and mitigate them.

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And that has been our intention.
But clearly, sometimes it ends up

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scaring people. Now,
there's another thing that I think

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has gone really bad.
Besides talking about the ways this has

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got could go wrong, which is, um,
I don't think we've done a great job as an

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industry of really talking
about how to empower people with

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this technology. Um, right.

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You know, you hear some people talk
about, well, we're going to give you a

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cure for cancer. And that's so great.

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So we're going to, you know, take these
risks and you're going to have to have

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less power and autonomy.
We want people to have more power and

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autonomy. You know,
I don't think a cure for

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cancer is enough. I mean,
wonderful thing to have,

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obviously, but we should
set our sights higher.

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We want these tool tools to enable
a boom in creativity and entrepreneurship,

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in people figuring out new ways to be
useful to each other, and wonderful

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products and services
to enable each other with.

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And I think that has been
lost in the messaging.

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And I also think there's some companies
that, um, have a different opinion

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there. But, but it's very,
very important to us

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that this technology is something where
people get more power and more autonomy,

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not less. And I think
people rightly get afraid

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when they feel like I leaders
might not quite want that for them.

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So that's in part where I wanted to ask
you about pricing on Astra, but also

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just generally. Right.

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I think the direction of travel
has been that you've cut prices.

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There is competition, of course,
with the other Frontier labs.

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Um, anthropic. But you know,
how much is that the

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balance of access to the technology.
You need to move quickly in releasing

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the technology and also still trying
to sort of find fair market value of how

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you price the technology we want
to create incredibly capable,

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incredibly low cost,
incredibly abundant intelligence.

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And I think Aster is a
great step forward there.

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The token efficiency of Aster
is so impressive to me.

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Um, the amount of work you can get
done with a relatively small amount of

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tokens, and the kind of the price per
dollar of a task that you might like, I

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think is just remarkable. Um,
only a few weeks ago, we cut the

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price of Luna, our small model, by 80%.
Um, uh, and our goal is to have the best

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price performance at every level
of intelligence all the way along the

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curve. Um, we will
continue to keep dropping

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prices dramatically. Um,
I'm confident in the shape of the

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technology and the work we're
doing to enable that to happen.

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And, um, you know, of course, like,
we'll make some money along the way, but

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I think the opportunity in front of us
is so huge, we will be able to continue

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to bring prices down
and still have huge revenue.

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Let's end our conversation here. Sam with

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Aster is a big step towards I actually
doing work autonomously, right?

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I've come to sort of see
the emphasis on that.

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If you staying ahead in the race that
you've just outlined requires OpenAI to

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just keep investing more heavily, maybe
than expected, to keep pushing out the

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boundaries of what the model is capable
of doing, the cadence of release.

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Where do you do you sit right now
on your considerations of doing that as a

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private company versus doing that as
a public company, where the sort of

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financial incentive and fiduciary
duty of being a public company isn't

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necessarily the same as being committed
to developing the technology, getting

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the technology released
out into the world.

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Um, if we do go public someday,
which I assume we will.

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I plan to spend a lot of time reminding
people who might want to buy or might

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not want to buy our our stock that we
are mission first and that we're also

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extremely long term oriented.
So we are going to make decisions for,

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um, what we think is best for society
as a whole with this technology.

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And we're going to make decisions
on a multi-decade timeframe.

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Um, and we think we'll do
really great as a company.

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Uh, but we're gonna
put those things first.