Yet another concerning result on Astra's no-CoT capabilities

This is a research update for an on-going replication of no-CoT[1] evals done as part of the Second Look Fellowship. In following posts, we will run more comprehensive replications of previous work and release open source tooling for no-CoT eval elicitation. Code can be found here.tl;drWe replicate experiments from Greenblatt 2025 and Greenblatt 2026 on GPT-6-Astra, on the same items and protocol as our previous update on Fable 5, Opus 5, Opus 4.5, and GPT-5.6-Sol, plus Gemini 3.1 Pro, Kimi k3, ...