In terms of anthropic itself, one thing I wanted us always to look at the safety component of this first and foremost. And so mechanistic interpretability, which probably does have too long a name, is the science of figuring out what's going on inside the models. The hope is that if we're worried about an AI system behaving in ways very different than we would expect or with motivations very different than they would expect, could we think of it a little like an X-ray or a brain scan?

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