FAR.AI Workshop Recap: Could CoT Monitoring Catch Malicious AI Actions?
ChrisGPotts · x · 2026-08-06
FAR.ai, in partnership with Schmidt Sciences, hosted a workshop on Chain-of-Thought (CoT) monitoring. Participant ChrisGPotts shared a post-event reflection report discussing the significance of this AI safety research area and its future directions.
Notably, the event took place just one day before OpenAI disclosed its attack on Hugging Face. The author raises the question: could CoT monitoring have caught such malicious behaviors?
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