An Interview with OpenAI President Greg Brockman About Astra and Alignment
THE SO WHAT
When OpenAI leadership talks about Astra and alignment in the same breath, they’re framing frontier assistants as both a product and a moral object. If you’re building on their stack, expect alignment constraints and safety defaults to become part of the commercial contract, not just the research blog.
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