Cross-industry
Journalism
April 2026
Sam Altman — The Atlantic / Rethink
OpenAI’s CEO gave Codex full agentic access within hours, citing chain-of-thought he called “fragile.”
“It’s fragile and it depends on a bunch of things, not falling to various potential optimization pressures.”
Hours
Time to
capitulate
capitulate
2027
CISO
deployment ETA
deployment ETA
How AVAAS solves this
If the CEO of the lab relies on a “fragile” mechanism for trust, the deployment ecosystem needs something more rigorous. AVAAS provides third-party behavioral verification independent of the model’s self-report.
✓ Verified
Altman, S. (April 2026). The Atlantic / Rethink podcast. Transcript on file.
Altman, S. (April 2026). The Atlantic / Rethink podcast. Transcript on file.
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