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TopicsArtificial intelligence Chain-of-Thought Monitorability

Future AI models can deliberately obscure their reasoning to evade monitoring.

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Future mod- els may become able to avoid detection by overriding their propensity to think out loud, and, when reasoning is required, to deliberately obfuscate it.

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.11473extraction 0.80

Limitation titled 'CoT monitoring may stop working in more advanced, situationally aware models.'

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