Mechanistic Interpretability lead DeepMind. Formerly @AnthropicAI, independent. In this to reduce AI X-risk. Neural networks can be understood, let's go do it!
A concerningly common take seems to be that keeping Chain of Thought monitorable doesn't matter because interpretability will save us, or it's already useless
This is total bullshit.
CoT is our best current tool for safety & interpretability, losing it would be a major tragedy