I’ve been thinking about a question raised by Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic, in his recent piece, “The Urgency of Interpretability.” He writes about the increasing power of artificial intelligence systems and our unsettling lack of insight into how they actually work. The models are getting stronger. Our ability to understand them is not.
This isn’t just a technical concern. Increasingly, these systems are showing up in places that carry legal, ethical, and practical significance. Mortgage determinations, hiring tools,
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