Can We Trust AI Explanations? Evidence of Systematic Underreporting in Chain-of-Thought Reasoning

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Main Author:	Mehta, Deep Pankajbhai
Format:	Preprint
Published:	2025
Subjects:	Artificial Intelligence
Online Access:	Acceder al recurso
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