Interpreting AI Thoughts Is a Choice, Not an Inevitability, Says Prof. David Bau
davidbau · x · 2026-11-08
Interpretability researcher David Bau pushed back on fears that humanity will inevitably fall behind AI: short of an impossibility proof, "humanity falling behind" is a choice, not an inevitability. If AI thoughts can be understood, whether we actually understand them depends on choices in engineering, social structures, science, and norms. The exchange arose from a case where OpenAI and top observers were initially misled about a model's underlying techniques.
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