You don't need CoT to detect AI harm — just monitor the real world

ZackKorman · x · 2026-09-04

Zack Korman argues you don't need chain-of-thought (reasoning tokens) to detect when an AI model is causing real-world harm — you can simply monitor the real world itself, a counterpoint to the current focus on CoT-based oversight.

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