Losing CoT monitorability might push labs to actually align models, not just surveil them
Sauers_ · x · 2026-09-04
The author offers a counterintuitive take: the loss of chain-of-thought monitorability may not be bad for AI safety. If labs can no longer rely on surveilling a model's reasoning, the incentive shifts toward making models genuinely aligned rather than merely monitorable.
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