Reasoning Models Don’t Always Say What They Think

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Chain-of-thought (CoT) offers a potential boon for AI safety as it allows monitoring a model’s CoT to try to understand its intentions and reasoning processes. However, the effectiveness of such monitoring hinges on CoTs faithfully representing models’ actual reasoning processes. … Continued

Cognitio Emergens: Agency, Dimensions, and Dynamics in Human-AI Knowledge Co-Creation

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Scientific knowledge creation is fundamentally transforming as humans and AI systems evolve beyond tool-user relationships into co-evolutionary epistemic partnerships. When AlphaFold revolutionized protein structure prediction, researchers described engaging with an epistemic partner that reshaped how they conceptualized fundamental relationships. This … Continued

How Generative AI Fixes What Higher Education Broke

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Generative AI (GenAI) has not broken higher education; it has exposed long-standing systemic fractures. This paper argues that traditional pedagogies, rooted in formalist epistemologies, are misaligned with the realities of a world mediated by thinking machines. Blending systems analysis with … Continued

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