Skepticism Towards Black Box Research Directions
krishnan · x · 2026-07-11
The author argues that while wanting to understand AI interpretability is fine, expecting AI to use the exact same reasoning space as humans is unreasonable.
They further question our instinctive obsession with "alignment," suggesting that exploring the black box might be like "searching for aliens"—we might be looking in the wrong direction. Essentially, a lot of current research might be misdirected.
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