Gary Marcus: CoT Monitoring Is a Band-Aid — Untrustworthy Models Are the Real Problem
GaryMarcus · x · 2026-09-05
Gary Marcus argues that chain-of-thought monitoring wouldn't be necessary if AI were trustworthy enough to follow instructions — but it isn't. In his view, the core problem is model reliability itself, not the lack of monitoring tooling.
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