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# [Why Visible Chain-of-Thought Cannot Serve as a Legal Audit Trail](https://blog.edtechniti.com/why-visible-chain-of-thought-cannot-serve-as-a-legal-audit-trail?utm_source=hashnode&utm_medium=feed)

Mechanistic interpretability shows models compute in latent space, proving visible reasoning logs cannot satisfy legal and compliance audits.

Oct 12 · 5 min read · blog.edtechniti.com  
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