Goodfire commits $10M to launch a 'Human Genome Project for AI' interpretability effort
mathildepapillo · x · 2026-10-27
Goodfire published an essay proposing a 'Human Genome Project for AI' — a cross-industry effort to fully reverse-engineer a frontier LLM — and is committing $10M to kick it off.
Key points:
- Interpretability has been losing the race against capability growth, with only a few hundred frontier researchers versus tens of thousands in neuroscience.
- First goal: unlock scaling laws for interpretability by placing capable agents in environments to run and verify experiments at scale.
- Ultimate goal: a living encyclopedia of how frontier models work, open to researchers everywhere.
- Scaling to the most capable models may require billions in shared costs, demanding industry-wide collaboration.
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