MechInterp unlikely to replace CoT monitoring in a year
nabla_theta · x · 2026-09-02
Argues that lacking good Chain-of-Thought makes monitoring harder, necessitating mechanistic interpretability. However, the author predicts mechinterp won't be mature enough in a year, noting current pragmatic solutions rely on shaky OOD generalization.
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