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The speaker suggests that chain-of-thought monitors may be used to flag problems, while their outputs should not be used to train the monitored agents.
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“So you might have monitors that read the agent's chain of thought in order to alert you if something is going wrong somewhere,”
“but you don't train the agents with the outputs of that monitor.”1:57:19Report a misattribution
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