OpenAI's new reasoning technique alarms AI safety experts
Russell BrandomTechCrunchPublished Sep 2, 2026Original︎ ↗Archived copy
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“My biggest concern is that a natural progression from here would involve scaling up the opaque reasoning to the point where the model reasons entirely or almost entirely in latent space,” Greenblatt wrote. “I hope it isn’t too late to avoid the most concerning architectures and that OpenAI will stop here.”
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OpenAI has worked to preserve and utilize chain-of-thought monitoring since our very first reasoning models. It's a core goal of our current research program.
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My biggest concern is that a natural progression from here would involve scaling up the opaque reasoning to the point where the model reasons entirely or almost entirely in latent space. I hope it isn't too late to avoid the most concerning architectures and that OpenAI will stop here.
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OpenAI has worked to preserve and utilize chain-of-thought monitoring since our very first reasoning models. It's a core goal of our current research program.
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