Researchers: Chain-of-Thought Legibility Is Too Fragile to Underpin Long-Term AI Safety
tszzl · x · 2026-09-04
jachiam0 argues chain-of-thought interpretability was always going to be too fragile to serve as an acceptable safety backstop: while preserving CoT fidelity is worthwhile, elevating "CoT must stay legible to humans" as a principle is doomed to fail, and legibility work must go far beyond CoT. Safety researcher davidad amplified it, saying he has been making the same point for years.
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