Study: Interpretability Tools Provide No Uplift for In-The-Wild Behavior Evals

a_karvonen · x · 2026-08-22

• Core Finding: This research constructed an interpretability evaluation for "in-the-wild" behaviors, but results show that existing interpretability tools provided no significant performance uplift.
• Context: The work was conducted as part of the Anthropic Fellows Program with several collaborators.
• Availability: A paper and a detailed blog post have been published discussing the actual efficacy of interp evals.

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