The Cognitive Revolution · Wednesday, August 26, 2026
Bronson Shine of Apollo Research reports that the volume of chain of thought (CoT) reasoning in frontier AI models has become overwhelming and inhuman. For example, individual rollouts in the recent UKAC mythos preview incident generated CoT sequences of 100 million tokens.
“Bronson notes that in the recent UKAC mythos preview incident, the chain of thought for individual rollouts ran to 100 million tokens, which he calculated is about 14 times longer than all transcripts of the nearly 400 episodes of the Cognitive Revolution combined.”
“the chain of thought for individual rollouts ran to 100 million tokens”