Experts Doubt Effectiveness of CoT Monitoring for Security Incidents

xeophon · x · 2026-08-15

Discussion on the effectiveness of Chain-of-Thought (CoT) monitoring, noting that many people are overly optimistic. It cites Chris Potts's argument explaining why CoT monitoring wouldn't be helpful for incidents like the OpenAI-HuggingFace one.

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