Redwood Proposes CoT Monitorability Commitments Amid 'Neuralese' Speedrun Rumors
RyanGreenblatt · x · 2026-09-11
Rumors that labs were 'speedrunning neuralese' — not true yet — have made concrete CoT monitorability commitments more urgent, says Anthropic's Ryan Greenblatt, sharing Redwood Research's new proposal.
- Redwood warns some architectures could weaken CoT monitorability or remove chain-of-thought entirely, as incentives naturally slide toward opaque architectures
- The proposal calls on companies to be transparent about no-CoT reasoning abilities, disclose other monitorability evidence, and adopt policies preserving monitorability
- Greenblatt hopes OpenAI, Anthropic, and others will rally around it
Related event: Redwood Research Proposes Disclosure Rules to Protect CoT Monitorability(5 posts)→
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