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🟣 EV Daily: AI's inner monologue goes public

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Azeem Azhar
Jul 17, 2025
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Lead story: 🧠 AI’s inner monologue goes public

Researchers from OpenAI, DeepMind and Anthropic, plus a slew of other AI bigwigs including Geoffrey Hinton and Safe Superintelligence CEO Ilya Sutskever, have published a paper-cum-open letter arguing that every step of an AI’s internal reasoning—its chain of thought (CoT)—be captured and made auditable. The signatories argue ā€œglass boxā€ CoT logs should be not a nice-to-have but a requirement to operate safely. Research shows that a smaller AI model can effectively monitor a more powerful model’s chain-of-thought. However, powerful models may still learn to obscure their reasoning, so this approach doesn’t settle the AI safety debate.

Nevertheless, the safety argument makes sense: researcher’s get valuable data, enterprises gain error forensics and regulators get a breadcrumb trail for safety checks. [Tomek Korbak, arXiv]

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