2025
CoT Red-Handed: Stress Testing Chain-of-Thought Monitoring
Benjamin Arnav, Pablo Bernabeu-Perez, Nathan Helm-Burger, Timothy Kostolansky, Hannes Whittingham, Mary Phuong
NeurIPS 2025poster
As AI models are deployed with increasing autonomy, it is important to ensure they do not take harmful actions unnoticed. As a potential mitigation, we investigate Chain-of-Thought (CoT) monitoring, wherein a weaker trusted monitor model continuously oversees the intermediate reasoning steps of a mo…