Margaret Mitchell: Advancing weight-based communication without human-readable decoding is the wrong path
mmitchell_ai · x · 2026-11-04
Margaret Mitchell reflects on the group-think priorities in AI: the field is advancing communication-via-weights between models without equally advancing the ability to decode what those weights actually mean for humans. Asked "why do this before solving the black box problem," the implicit answer is that some problems are seen as "slowing down" progress while others aren't — and safety issues around weight communication fall squarely in the "slow down" bucket, revealing skewed judgments about what counts as important.
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