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One of the main hopes for AI safety is using AIs to automate AI safety research. However, if models are misaligned, then they may sabotage the safety research. For example, misaligned AIs may try to: * Perform sloppy research in order to slow down the rate of research progress *...

Current LLMs externalize lots of their reasoning in human interpretable language. This reasoning is sometimes unfaithful, sometimes strange and concerning, and LLMs can do somewhat impressive reasoning without using CoT, but my overall impression is that CoT currently is a reasonably complete and accurate representation of LLM reasoning. However, reasoning...