Anthropic Researchers: Superposition Is Not a Blocker for Interpretability
Anthropic researchers Eric Ho and Curt Tigges argue that superposition, long seen as a major obstacle to interpretability, is not truly unsolvable, and that interpretability is more tractable than expected. Recent neuron-level progress should be read as a positive signal to attract more researchers, not as proof that alignment work is done.
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