Researcher warns claiming 'ambitious interp is almost solved' is dangerous and unwise
aryaman2020 · x · 2026-10-16
Repost of interpretability researcher Neil Rathi's warning: it is dangerous and unwise to claim that "ambitious interp is almost solved" unless you are ridiculously confident. He argues the field is in a fragile moment where the world is actually taking alignment seriously, and such claims risk ruining that progress — a substantive intra-community debate about public messaging on alignment progress.
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