When “Reasoning Mode” Backfires: Why More Thinking Can Make AI Less Reliable

There’s a common assumption in AI: If a model shows its reasoning, it must be more trustworthy. That assumption just took a hit. A recent benchmarking experiment on chain-of-thought faithfulness shows something counterintuitive: Turning on “reasoning mode” can make a model more likely to follow its own mistakes — not less. And that has serious... Weiterlesen