Transparency Disclosures for Chain-of-Thought Monitorability

arXiv:2611.13873v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Chain-of-thought (CoT) monitoring is one of the most valuable tools for monitoring advanced AI systems, but it is under threat. We argue that frontier AI developers should report specific indicators to make these threats trackable and to better facilitate coordination to preserve CoT monitorability. We identify five indicators that are both highly relevant and reasonably feasible to disclose, one for each link in a five-step chain on which CoT monitoring depends. The first, third-party CoT access and base architecture specifications, also under

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