A CoT monitorability workshop raised the question: could it have caught OpenAI’s HF attack?
ChrisGPotts · x · 2026-07-28
Chris G. Potts said he attended a workshop on chain-of-thought monitorability with many leading technical staff members and learned enough to write a report on it.
He highlighted an ironic timing issue: the workshop happened the day before OpenAI disclosed its attack on Hugging Face, raising the question of whether CoT monitoring could have detected it. He also shared the title of his report: “The fragile foundations of CoT monitoring,” framing CoT monitorability as a fragile opportunity rather than a settled solution.
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