OpenAI staff reaffirms commitment to Chain-of-Thought monitoring
peterjliu · x · 2026-09-02
Addressing concerns that model computational depth (e.g., Recurrent Depth) might trigger a race towards unmonitorability, OpenAI employee Peter Liu responded that the computation graph depth of current frontier models, including Astra, is within a factor of two of GPT-4.
He emphasized that OpenAI has worked to preserve and utilize Chain-of-Thought monitoring since its very first reasoning models. The company deeply values this technique as it provides a view into model alignment and ensures model behavior remains controllable, aiming to prevent a race to the bottom driven by confused reporting.
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