OpenAI seems to imply that it's good for safety/monitoring to make `reasoning=None` unavailable to the public because Astra has much higher latent reasoning capabilities (with less need for CoT). But this actually makes it even more important to study AI capabilities without CoT! Not allowing people to query the AI without reasoning doesn't make these monitorability problems go away (the model can still latently reason without verbalizing it when reasoning is on, and the reasoning-on case is…