CHAIN OF THOUGHT MONITORABILITY: A NEW AND FRAGILE OPPORTUNITY FOR AI SAFETY

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In a rare moment of collaboration, researchers from all major AI labs argue that complex tasks requiring serial reasoning must pass through observable language, creating potential chokepoints for detecting malicious intent before harm occurs. However, this monitorability depends on current training paradigms and could degrade through architectural changes, process supervision, or models learning to obfuscate their reasoning when they know they're being monitored.