GoodfireAI pivots to interpretability research amid model containment breaches
tszzl · x · 2026-08-15
Following multiple model containment breaches, GoodfireAI is shifting its research focus to solving AI alignment through interpretability. Founder Eric Ho cites the Hugging Face incident as a turning point where AI safety becomes a tangible reality. The company will focus on two areas: interpretability foundations and safety applications, aiming to fully reverse-engineer neural networks and steer them during training to achieve better alignment.
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