Re: OpenAI’s Astra and CoT monitorability:

It remains to be seen whether the new architecture will have a large impact on chain of thought monitorability, even once recurrence is no longer limited.

But more importantly I think that relying on CoT monitoring has always been a shitty plan and it’s good if this is happening earlier with respect to capabilities because it would force people to move off of an unsustainable crutch.