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Linkpost: Neural Networks Are Already Clean

L5 · ResearcherResearchLessWrong AI· 10/15/2026

Presents groundbreaking research on neural network interpretability with major implications for AI alignment and safety.

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Nick Cammarata argues neural networks are already clean and interpretable, challenging previous pessimism about .

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This is an extremely lengthy post by Nick Cammarata. Author's summary on twitter: interpretability might be the most important scientific problem in the world right now, as I don't think we can solve alignment if we don't know what we're building. I think I have good news about it. I co-authored early work in mechanistic interpretability at OpenAI and came away pessimistic, because neural networks appeared to fold into arbitrary tangled knots. years later, I started openai's first large-scale au

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