AI models use CoTs to break down advanced queries into intermediate, logical steps that are expressed in natural language.

How Does CoT Work? CoT prompting works by asking the model to produce intermediate steps instead of jumping to a final answer, explains Jennifer Marsman, a principal engineer in generative AI at ...

We encourage the research community and frontier AI developers to make the best use of CoT monitorability and study how it can be preserved,” they added.

Researchers are urging developers to prioritize research into “chain-of-thought” processes, which provide a window into how AI systems make decisions.