"In a review of 1,000 chain-of-thought research papers, approximately one quarter explicitly treated CoT as an interpretability technique."
The Oxford-led research reports that 244 of 1,000 sampled CoT-centric papers treated chain-of-thought as a form of interpretability. The finding documents the spread of this assumption through research, particularly relevant to the book's concern that visible reasoning traces can create an exaggerated impression of transparency.
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