Opinion: Forcing Legible CoT Might Weaken LLM Alignment
JacquesThibs · x · 2026-09-02
Jacques Thibault expresses skepticism towards CoT monitoring, a popular measure in the safety community. He argues that enforcing extra-legible Chain of Thought could actually make LLMs less aligned. He also notes the difficulty in transferring external safety techniques.
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