Commercial incentives push models to be less monitorable, argues Kelsey Tuoc
KelseyTuoc · x · 2026-10-13
Kelsey Tuoc points out a counterintuitive dynamic in the oversight debate: there are overwhelming commercial incentives to make models less monitorable — e.g., having them think in less comprehensible internal representations to gain performance. She is also skeptical that recent safety improvements represent a durable trend rather than post-incident patching.
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