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The fragile foundations of CoT monitoring | Christopher Potts

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Takeaways from a workshop on Chain of Thought monitorability, and why we should reduce our dependence on CoT for AI safety.

The fragile foundations of CoT monitoring | Christopher Potts Credit: Art Potts By Christopher Potts – July 27, 2026 Last week, I attended a workshop on Chain of Thought (i.e., reasoning chain) monitorability. Many of the most influential researchers and “members of technical staff” working on this topic were present. I felt lucky to be there, since pretty much everything I know about CoT monitoring I learned from Peter Hase . I have, however, worked extensively on interpretability, and there seems to be a general hope that interpretability will improve or complement CoT monitoring, though thi

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