Assessing skeptical views of interpretability research | Christopher Potts
Goodfire and Anthropic have jointly organized a meet-up of academic and industry researchers called “Interpretability: the next 5 years”, to be held later this month. Participants have been invited to contribute short discussion documents. This is a draft of my document, which I am posting publicly to try to stimulate discussion in the broader community.
Assessing skeptical views of interpretability research | Christopher Potts Credit: Tom Brink By Christopher Potts – August 8, 2025 Goodfire and Anthropic have jointly organized a meet-up of academic and industry researchers called “Interpretability: the next 5 years”, to be held later this month. Participants have been invited to contribute short discussion documents. This is a draft of my document, which I am posting publicly to try to stimulate discussion in the broader community. It’s an awkward time for interpretability research in AI. On the one hand, the pace of technical innovation has
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