Neel Nanda: solving mech interp is the bare minimum to make AI alignment an engineering discipline
tszzl · x · 2026-10-06
- Replying to tszzl, Neel Nanda argues that making AI alignment into an engineering discipline — rather than "superintelligent animal husbandry" — requires, at bare minimum, solving mechanistic interpretability.
- tszzl quips back that "thankfully we have spiky superintelligences to help us," a wry nod to the circular difficulty of the alignment problem.
- A short but substantive exchange between two well-known alignment/interp researchers on the path to safe AGI.
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