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Ten Ways Mechanistic Interpretability Research Can Mislead You

A circuit that looks clean, a feature that reconstructs well, an intervention that moves the metric — each is compatible with a story nobody has actually tried to break.

By Brecht Corbeel · August 12, 2026 · 18 min read

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A History of Mechanistic Interpretability

Long before the term existed, researchers tried to read meaning into a trained network's units. This is mechanistic interpretability's dated history: a naming paper, a landmark result, and three labs converging on one tool within months of each other.

By Brecht Corbeel · August 12, 2026 · 16 min read

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