The Reasoning Trap -- Logical Reasoning as a Mechanistic Pathway to Situational Awareness

arXiv:2603.09200 · cs.AI, cs.CL, cs.CY, cs.LG · Submitted 2026-03-10 · Read on arXiv

cs.AI, cs.CL, cs.CY, cs.LG

Submitted: 2026-03-10

Updated: 2026-10-14

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• Large Language Models (LLMs) — 1× in this paper · explained in 6 episodes

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