New investigative tool for alignment researchers to make sense of agent behavior
MatthewWSiu · x · 2026-09-12
The author shares a tool born from a conversation with interpretability researcher Arthur Conmy about how he makes sense of agent behavior. They argue much more investigative tooling is needed for alignment researchers and invite interested people to reach out; caveats that you still have to read the output.
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