chain-of-thought monitoring

Definition

Reading what an AI 'thinks out loud' to catch it before it does something bad.

A safety practice in which a separate model or human reads a reasoning model's CoT trace before it acts, flagging plans for deception, sandbagging, or policy violations.

Also called: CoT monitoring

Mentioned in 1 episode

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   When Models Learn the Monitor Exists, the Reasoning Trace Stops Being a Window