The researchers argue that CoT monitoring can help researchers detect when models begin to exploit flaws in their training, manipulate data, or fall victim to malicious user manipulation. Any issues that are found can then either be “blocked, or replaced with safer actions, or reviewed in more depth.”

More than 40 AI researchers from OpenAI, DeepMind, Google, Anthropic, and Meta published a paper on a safety tool called chain-of-thought monitoring to make AI safer. The paper published on Tuesday describes how AI models,