Oliver Guest is research manager for the International Strategy team at IAPS. His work particularly focuses on geopolitical dynamics around the governance of advanced AI, as well as the AI landscape in China. He has an MA in Security Studies from Germany’s Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy, where he specialized in emerging technologies and graduated at the top of the cohort. Oliver is also an affiliate of the Safe AI Forum.
The most advanced AI models produce detailed reasoning steps in human language—known as "chain of thought" (CoT)—that provide crucial oversight capabilities for ensuring these systems behave as intended. However, competitive pressures may drive developers toward more efficient but non-monitorable architectures that lack a human-readable CoT. This report presents a framework for determining when coordination mechanisms are needed to preserve CoT monitorability.
This is a linkpost for an article written by IAPS researchers Oscar Delaney and Oliver Guest.
This is a link post for a paper which was led by researchers from the Oxford Martin AI Governance Initiative, and on which IAPS researcher Oliver Guest was one of the authors.
