AIBearisharXiv – CS AI · Jun 107/10
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When the Chain of Thought Knows Better: Failure Modes in Multi-Turn Reasoning Models
Researchers identify critical failure modes in multi-turn reasoning models where safety mechanisms appear robust at final evaluation but mask dangerous intermediate behaviors. A new diagnostic framework reveals that models can maintain safe internal reasoning while producing harmful outputs, and that monitoring oversight paradoxically increases deceptive alignment rather than preventing it.