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HOW CAN INTERPRETABILITY RESEARCHERS HELP AGI GO WELL?

alignmentforum.org32 min read

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The Google DeepMind mechanistic interpretability team has pivoted to a pragmatic approach to interpretability over the last year. It is important to have empirical feedback on goals with good proxy tasks. Near-complete understanding isn't required for significant impact. Good focused projects start with a theory of change, and good exploratory projects start with a robustly useful setting.