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Reasoning Models Struggle to Control their Chains of Thought published

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Published Reasoning Models Struggle to Control their Chains of Thought — CoT controllability of 2.7% versus output controllability of 61.9%

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A follow-up that directly tested the premise of the Monitorability proposal to use CoT as a safety monitoring tool

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Paperarxiv.orghttps://arxiv.org/abs/2603.05706

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