Prompt EngineeringFazl Barez et al. (Oxford, Google DeepMind, Mila and others)University of OxfordGoogle DeepMind

Chain-of-Thought Is Not Explainability published

Chain-of-Thought Is Not Explainability published — of 1,000 recent CoT papers, about 25% treat CoT as an interpretability technique

Why it matters

A position paper that makes the practice of using CoT as an explanation its subject

Source — Primary sources first; secondary reports are labelled “Press”

Officialaigi.ox.ac.ukhttps://aigi.ox.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Cot_Is_Not_Explainability.pdf

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