AI Giants Push for Transparency on Models' Inner Monologue

Experts Aim to Probe How AI Models Reason, and Why It Matters Rashmi Ramesh (rashmiramesh_) • July 16, 2025

As an artificial intelligence model narrates what it claims is its own thoughts, it's tempting to believe that we finally know what it is thinking. But researchers from AI enterprise giants that make these models caution that this glimpse into machine reasoning could be fleeting, and that much more needs to be understood before labelling it as true transparency.

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A coalition of scientists from OpenAI, Google DeepMind and Anthropic called for a systematic investigation into monitoring the so-called chains-of-thought, or CoTs, that underpin modern AI reasoning models. These models include OpenAI's o3 and DeepSeek's R1, which are designed to tackle complex tasks by breaking them down step by step, similar to how a human might ...