AskScience AMA: Expert Discusses Transparency and Safety of AI Chain-of-Thought Reasoning

umd-science · reddit · 2026-08-12

Sarah Wiegreffe, Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the University of Maryland, hosted an AMA on r/askscience focused on improving the transparency, reliability, and safety of language models.

She is leading a new research effort testing whether the reasoning processes used by advanced AI systems remain transparent. The research centers on chain-of-thought reasoning, where AI models generate step-by-step explanations of how they reach their answers.

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