🔆 OpenAI’s New Astra Model (GPT-6 Astra)
📍 Why in News?
🟢 OpenAI has released GPT-6 Astra, a new frontier AI model designed to perform end-to-end tasks, rather than merely respond to individual prompts.
📍 Key Features
🟢 Autonomous computer use: Operates computers and browsers, fills forms, updates records and organises calendars.
🟢 Research & content creation: Conducts web research, drafts documents/emails, analyses scientific data and generates plots.
🟢 Software tasks: Can build websites, install/test software and troubleshoot screen-visible problems.
🟢 Large context: 1.05 million-token context window with maximum output of 128,000 tokens.
🟢 Task continuity: Better retains the original objective even when instructions change midway.
🟢 Cybersecurity: Classified at the critical level for cybersecurity under OpenAI’s Preparedness Framework.
📍 UPSC Relevance
🟢 AI autonomy → shift from conversational AI towards agentic AI capable of executing multi-step tasks.
🟢 Governance challenge → autonomous systems raise questions of accountability, privacy, safety and human oversight.
🟢 Economic impact → potential transformation of software development, research, administration and knowledge-intensive employment.
🟢 Cybersecurity → advanced AI capabilities create both defensive opportunities and heightened misuse risks.
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