Learning Steganography Is Easy, Learning Steganographic Reasoning Is Hard

This post summarises our paper Learning Steganography Is Easy, Learning Steganographic Reasoning Is Hard, accepted as an oral at the NeurIPS 2026 Workshop on Trustworthy AI for Good (AI4GOOD). Code, configurations and results for all experiments: github.com/stegano-ai/steg-reasoning-is-hard.This work was done as part of the Meridian Visiting Researcher Programme and the Safe AI Germany (SAIGE) Incubator Program, with funding from Coefficient Giving.TL;DRChain-of-thought (CoT) monitoring fails if...