Prompt EngineeringKerem Zaman et al. (UNC Chapel Hill)

Is Chain-of-Thought Really Not Explainability?

Published "Is Chain-of-Thought Really Not Explainability?" — a rebuttal arguing that CoT can be faithful even when it does not put the hint into words

Why it matters

A direct counterargument to the Oxford position paper. Cite the two as a pair

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

Pressarxiv.orghttps://arxiv.org/abs/2512.23032

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