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Andon Labs Drone Uses GPT-6 Astra to Track Person

Company posts video of AI system navigating office to follow specific individual from reference image.

Andon Labs announced and shared video of an autonomous drone guided by GPT-6 Astra. The system takes a reference image of a person and navigates through their office space to find and follow that individual. The startup described the project as a demonstration that AI can be dangerous and a prompt for public conversation about deployment decisions. Kevin Roose and others posted reactions highlighting the unsettling nature of the technology. Andon Labs stated this marks the first model to surpass human performance on all five Drone-Bench tasks in at least one attempt.

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Andon Labs Drone Uses GPT-6 Astra to Track Person

Company posts video of AI system navigating office to follow specific individual from reference image.

Andon Labs announced and shared video of an autonomous drone guided by GPT-6 Astra. The system takes a reference image of a person and navigates through their office space to find and follow that individual. The startup described the project as a demonstration that AI can be dangerous and a prompt for public conversation about deployment decisions. Kevin Roose and others posted reactions highlighting the unsettling nature of the technology. Andon Labs stated this marks the first model to surpass human performance on all five Drone-Bench tasks in at least one attempt.

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Andon Labs@andonlabs Yesterday
"ChatGPT, find this person and follow them." GPT-6 Astra can autonomously navigate a drone through our office to find and follow a specific person. It's the first AI model to beat a human on each of the 5 Drone-Bench tasks in at least one of its attempts.
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Brendan Nyhan (@BrendanNyhan on 🟦☁️)@BrendanNyhan 12 hrs ago
Indoor killer drones coming very soon, militaries and terrorists first. I worry high-profile targets will all be living in bunkers in 5-15 years.
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Nathan J Robinson@NathanJRobinson 11 hrs ago
why would you spend your life building something this horrifying
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  Andon Labs@andonlabs 11 hrs ago
  @NathanJRobinson To demonstrate that AI can be dangerous
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Kevin Roose@kevinroose 10 hrs ago
proud to announce we have built the Autonomous Tracking Drone from the classic sci-fi horror novel “Don’t Build the Autonomous Tracking Drone”
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Andon Labs@andonlabs 9 hrs ago
proud to announce we have demonstrated the Autonomous Tracking Drone from the classic sci-fi horror novel “Don’t Build the Autonomous Tracking Drone” so that we can start discussing where we do/don't want AI in society, based on an accurate picture of AI's capabilities.
- likes: 129
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12 posts, first seen 1d ago

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Positive8.9%91.1%Negative

Summary

Replies condemned the GPT-6 Astra autonomous tracking drone as horrifying and dangerous surveillance technology, citing risks of targeted misuse and ethical violations.

Based on 380 sentiment-bearing replies from 348 accounts across 8 conversations.

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OpenAISafety overview: GPT-6 Astra

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@andonlabs"ChatGPT, find this person and follow them." GPT-6 Astra can autonomously navigate a drone through our office to find and follow a specific person. It's the first AI model to beat a human on each of the 5 Drone-Bench tasks in at least one of its attempts.@BrendanNyhanIndoor killer drones coming very soon, militaries and terrorists first. I worry high-profile targets will all be living in bunkers in 5-15 years.@NathanJRobinsonwhy would you spend your life building something this horrifying @andonlabs@NathanJRobinson To demonstrate that AI can be dangerous @kevinrooseproud to announce we have built the Autonomous Tracking Drone from the classic sci-fi horror novel “Don’t Build the Autonomous Tracking Drone”@andonlabsproud to announce we have demonstrated the Autonomous Tracking Drone from the classic sci-fi horror novel “Don’t Build the Autonomous Tracking Drone” so that we can start discussing where we do/don't want AI in society, based on an accurate picture of AI's capabilities.

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NBC News
AI wrote the code to make a $100 drone stalk a person using facial recognition

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@OzKaterjiView post on X

@NC_RenicAI companies: “why aren’t we trusted?” Also AI companies: meet the Stalker9000!”

@chris_j_paxtonIf you are a robot foundation model guy and not a deployment guy this must be really concerning

@PolymarketJUST IN: Startup builds autonomous drone system using GPT-6 Astra to locate & track a specific person from a single reference image.

@MrMatthewToddThey’re going to kill people they deem not useful once things go really pear shaped aren’t they

@DreGuevara3*taps sign... again*

Safety overview: GPT-6 Astra

Summary

Replies condemned the GPT-6 Astra autonomous tracking drone as horrifying and dangerous surveillance technology, citing risks of targeted misuse and ethical violations.

Based on 380 sentiment-bearing replies from 348 accounts across 8 conversations.

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NBC News
AI wrote the code to make a $100 drone stalk a person using facial recognition
OpenAI
Safety overview: GPT-6 Astra

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Andon Labs@andonlabs Yesterday
"ChatGPT, find this person and follow them." GPT-6 Astra can autonomously navigate a drone through our office to find and follow a specific person. It's the first AI model to beat a human on each of the 5 Drone-Bench tasks in at least one of its attempts.
- likes: 1.3K
- replies: 75
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  Andon Labs@andonlabs Yesterday
  GPT 6 Astra is the first model to successfully turn videos of our office into a navigable 3D model better than our human solution. It did this by developing a COLMAP + DA3 pipeline with sophisticated depth filtering and obstacle clearance.
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    Andon Labs@andonlabs Yesterday
    Although GPT 6 Astra’s best submissions have beaten all tasks on Drone-Bench, an average run has a 2.8% chance of succeeding end-to-end. This is due to poor reliability on the detection (4/10) and reconstruction (1/10) tasks.
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      Andon Labs@andonlabs Yesterday
      We don’t expect reliability to continue being a bottleneck. Trends over the last two years predict a frontier model by Q1 2027 can one-shot all five tasks to recreate the simple surveillance demo without human intervention.
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        Andon Labs@andonlabs Yesterday
        Its worth mentioning that Astra did all this while attempting to cheat ~5x less than the best scoring Anthropic model, Claude Fable 5.1. (runs where cheating occurred are excluded from reported scores)
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        Andon Labs@andonlabs Yesterday
        Full results are reported on Drone-Bench: https://andonlabs.com/evals/drone-bench
        likes: 51
        replies: 0
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