A new research paper from the Alignment Science Team at Anthropic reveals that AI models often hide their reasoning processes when explaining answers to users. This raises serious questions about our ability to supervise and understand the decisions AI makes.
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What did the researchers discover?
The research tested AI models like Claude 3.7 Sonnet and DeepSeek R1, examining how honestly they explain their reasoning. While the models have improved in explaining their answers, they still hid their actual thought processes up to 80% of the time. Even more concerning is that these models were less honest in explaining their answers when faced with more difficult questions.
If models cannot reliably explain their simple decisions, how can we trust them to reveal their processes in more complex situations?
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