Mollick: Hidden chains of thought push AI from augmentation toward automation

Wharton professor Ethan Mollick notes that Claude and ChatGPT no longer show detailed chain-of-thought summaries, likely for anti-distillation and UX reasons, warning that hiding reasoning pushes AI toward automation rather than human augmentation.

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