Paper and code released: Reward Misspecification Degrades CoT Monitorability

johnhewtt · x · 2026-10-20

Resource thread for the study above: the paper "Reward Misspecification Degrades Chain-of-Thought Monitorability" is out, with an Apache-2.0 GitHub repo providing datasets, configs and reproduction scripts (built on tinker-cookbook==0.5.7, with Tinker, OpenAI and W&B integration). The lab is also seeking funding partners for rigorous safety research.

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