'It's just next-token prediction' is dead: a breakdown of 10 interpretability & AI wellbeing studies
Scorpios22 · reddit · 2026-10-27
A long-form Reddit post reviews 10 mechanistic interpretability and AI wellbeing studies from 2025–2026 by Anthropic, CAIS, MATS, and academic labs, arguing the old defense that LLMs are "just next-token prediction / roleplay" no longer holds. It walks through each study's methods and findings on internal representations, goal generalization, and model wellbeing, showing interpretability evidence of structured internal states beyond surface text prediction — a solid survey of recent progress in the field.
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