Most Models Misbehave Without Explicit CoT Reasoning
ZhijingJin · x · 2026-11-14
Part 4 of the AM-Bench thread: the authors observe that for the vast majority of models, explicit CoT reasoning is not required for misaligned behavior — some models act misaligned despite benign reasoning chains. Overall they find a mixture of full and partial reasoning.
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