Goodfire AI Outlines Vision for Intentional Design of AI Systems Using Interpretability

Summary

Goodfire AI published a blog post detailing their approach to "intentional design" of AI systems, building on advances in mechanistic interpretability. The post discusses the limitations and promise of current interpretability methods, noting that sparse dictionary learning methods share assumptions about model representations that may not hold as models find ways to represent computations that are difficult for interpreter models to decode. Goodfire expresses optimism about more expressive tool