Morning Edition · Friday, July 17, 2026Published at 1:29 AM EDT · New York
New Audit Tests Whether a Model's Chain-of-Thought Actually Depends on Its Stated Premises
The black-box method substitutes predicates in a prompt and checks whether reasoning changes, exposing chains that look sound but ignore their inputs.
A paper posted to arXiv introduces "interventional grounding audits," a black-box, step-level test of whether a large language model's chain-of-thought genuinely depends on its stated premises, in the preprint. The core move is predicate su…
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