OpenAI chief scientist says CoT was hidden to protect it from supervision pressure
DaveRBanerjee · x · 2026-09-07
OpenAI's chief scientist said the primary reason chain-of-thought is hidden is to protect it from supervision pressure—not, as many assumed, to stop distillation. DaveRBanerjee noted he had assumed distillation prevention was the main motive. The statement touches on CoT visibility and shielding internal reasoning from outside intervention.
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