A throwaway line about CoT-monitor classifier tech may signal a major alignment breakthrough
tszzl · x · 2026-09-04
Researcher tszzl flags that a classifier technology mentioned almost casually in a lab's blog post could be a big deal: training against a CoT monitor while avoiding deception and evasion would be a major advance in alignment.
The core difficulty of monitor-based oversight — training against the monitor without teaching the model to deceive or evade it — was glossed over, and the community should press for details on how it's actually done.
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