Mech Interp Lags Deployment, but Its Slowdown Buys Breathing Room for Safety
akbirthko · x · 2026-10-17
The author argues that while human-AI analogies remain incredibly useful and underrated, the future is highly uncertain. Even if mechanistic interpretability and AI safety terminally lag behind deployment and can only inform safety empirically, the slowdown they cause gives us breathing room to think.
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