OpenAI on Reasoning Model Monitoring: Committed to Chain-of-Thought
arthurcolle · x · 2026-09-02
Responding to discussions about the trend towards unmonitorability, this post references OpenAI's stance: OpenAI has worked to preserve and utilize chain-of-thought monitoring since their very first reasoning models. They deeply care about this technique as it provides visibility into how model alignment works, indicating an effort to maintain monitorability amidst architectural evolution.
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