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TopicsChain-of-Thought Monitorability Large language models

Long reasoning-model chains of thought obscure which verbalized reasons influence model actions.

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Models Produce Long, Complex, CoT With Multiple Plausible Interpretations. [...] This length and complexity makes interpreting the model’s motivations challenging, as it is often unclear how much a model’s actions are actually conditioned on any single verbalized reason in the chain-of-thought.

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Section 4, challenges in using the chain of thought.

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