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In CoT-hidden backdoored models, the chain of thought is downstream of, not part of, the poisoned computation.

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The chain-of-thought is therefore a downstream artifact of the poisoned computation rather than a component of it, which explains why scrutiny of the trace alone does not recover the behavior.

https://arxiv.org/html/2608.02820v1extraction 0.80

Mechanistic and forced-CoT experiments in poisoned models.

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