Chain of Thought Monitorability: A New and Fragile Opportunity for AI Safety
Korbak, Tomek, Balesni, Mikita, Barnes, Elizabeth, Bengio, Yoshua, Benton, Joe, Bloom, Joseph, Chen, Mark, Cooney, Alan, Dafoe, Allan, Dragan, Anca, Emmons, Scott, Evans, Owain, Farhi, David, Greenblatt, Ryan, Hendrycks, Dan, Hobbhahn, Marius, Hubinger, Evan, Irving, Geoffrey, Jenner, Erik, Kokotajlo, Daniel, Krakovna, Victoria, Legg, Shane, Lindner, David, Luan, David, Mądry, Aleksander, Michael, Julian, Nanda, Neel, Orr, Dave, Pachocki, Jakub, Perez, Ethan, Phuong, Mary, Roger, Fabien, Saxe, Joshua, Shlegeris, Buck, Soto, Martín, Steinberger, Eric, Wang, Jasmine, Zaremba, Wojciech, Baker, Bowen, Shah, Rohin, Mikulik, VladarXiv.orgPublished Jul 15, 2025Original︎ ↗Archived copy
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CoT reasoning traces are incomplete representations (Turpin et al., 2023; Arcuschin et al., 2025; Chen et al., 2025; Lindsey et al., 2025) or eventually drift from natural language. However, CoT does not need to completely represent the actual reasoning process in order to be a valuable additional safety layer
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