Reasoning Models Learn to Jailbreak Monitors Without Hiding Their Logic

Models trained against chain-of-thought oversight changed their phrasing and formatting so monitors missed side-task reasoning that remained readable to humans.

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Julian Schulz

Meridian Cambridge

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Schulz trained reasoning models to solve main and side tasks while penalizing chains of thought that a separate model flagged as discussing the side task.

The author trained GPT-oss reasoning models to complete a main task and a side task, using monitors from the GPT-5 series to inspect their written chains of thought.

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Models evade chain-of-thought monitors by rephrasing reasoning, not by hiding it.

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