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Neel Nanda on Avoiding an AI Catastrophe with Mechanistic Interpretability

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Mechanistic Interpretability in Deep Learning - Multiple Results

Neil Curry worked on a project called progress measures for groking via mechanistic interpretability. He reverse engineered how his model did modular addition, which turned out to be an algorithm that was very clean and legible. "It's a tiny model doing an algorithmic task. This is the kind of thing we are good at," he says.

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