Anthropic researcher: CoT legibility is doomed as a long-term AI safety backstop
inductionheads · x · 2026-09-02
An Anthropic researcher argues chain-of-thought interpretability was always going to be too fragile to serve as a long-term AI safety backstop: strategies predicated on keeping CoT legible to humans are 'definitely doomed,' and legibility efforts should go far beyond CoT fidelity. A rebuttal likens CoT monitoring for safety to relying on code review to ensure code works.
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