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Latent reasoning would undermine chain of thought oversight

Latent reasoning would undermine chain of thought oversight

A LessWrong summary argues that a shift toward latent reasoning architectures would make chain of thought (CoT) less useful and make AI oversight much harder, as models would reason in latent states instead of text.

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