Interp researcher defends probes as a real win while downgrading the field's overall progress
ArthurConmy · x · 2026-09-07
In a debate comparing interp and RL progress, interpretability researcher Arthur Conmy argues that those deploying and improving probes at frontier labs are largely interp researchers, making probes a genuine field win — while conceding some criticism and marking an update down on interpretability as 'a broadly confused mass of techniques.'
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