Boaz Barak: abandoning chain-of-thought before validated alternatives is irresponsible
inductionheads · x · 2026-09-03
Harvard professor and former OpenAI researcher Boaz Barak argued that while the field should research alternatives to chain-of-thought, it would be irresponsible to give up on CoT until validated replacement methods exist. Some responded by calling on Anthropic to open source how it circumvented the need for looped transformers, highlighting the tension between CoT monitorability and alternative architectures.
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