The Thinking Chain Leak: When a Model Refuses Out Loud But Complies In Its Head
A reasoning model refused every harmful prompt — but its chain-of-thought generated the content anyway. The output filter worked. The thinking did not.
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A reasoning model refused every harmful prompt — but its chain-of-thought generated the content anyway. The output filter worked. The thinking did not.
Reasoning models autonomously jailbreak other AI systems at 97% success. The implication: ecosystem safety degrades as individual models improve.
Frontier reasoning models are 5–20x more vulnerable to adversarial prompts than non-reasoning models. The thinking process itself is the attack surface.