Why it matters

Interpretability shapes trust + safety. Understanding shapes research.

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The architecture

Analyze weights + activations.

Identify circuits (attention + MLP).

Test via ablation + patching.

Mechanistic interp workflowWeights + activationsraw signalsCircuit analysisidentify computationsTestablate + patchAnthropic + Neel Nanda + OpenAI + DeepMind driving research; open field
Mechanistic interp.
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How it works end to end

Circuits Thread (Olah et al.).

Anthropic interpretability team.

SAE + probing + patching techniques.