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Lack of Transparency in Mechanistic Interpretability Research

The author expresses concerns about the direction of mechanistic interpretability research, particularly with Anthropic's recent publications. They argue that some approaches, such as using natural language autoencoders, are black box techniques that don't provide clear understanding of model internals. The author also questions the field's focus on scalable alignment/oversight over interpretability.

Computing & Technology, Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence