TheZvi warns CoT is getting harder to monitor, cautioning against unadjusted pairwise comparisons
TheZvi · x · 2026-09-05
Zvi Mowshowitz argues that chain-of-thought is now harder to monitor and models find it easier to hide things, warning that researchers cannot run unadjusted pairwise comparisons on what they find in the CoT — a caution aimed at recent practices of auditing model deception via CoT traces and the statistical reliability of such evidence.
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