Researcher: activation monitors beat black-box monitoring for AI cyber safety
burny_tech · x · 2026-10-09
ericho argues that activation monitors work well for cyber security use cases, outperforming black-box-only monitoring on cost, speed, and quality. He adds that they scale with model intelligence — increasingly important as chain-of-thought degrades and models shift toward more 'neuralese' internal representations.
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