Equation 4 · Part 5 · Mechanistic Interpretability in 2035: Scenarios and Falsifiers
Symbol S
What this part means
S is one factor in the product that computes the quantity on the left.
Its job in the formula
S is one factor in the product that computes the quantity on the left.
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The passage around this formula
…Write A(t) for the share of a frontier model’s decision-relevant behaviour with a validated, causally checked account — Circuit Tracing’s own figures are the best public anchor for where A(t) sits today [ 2 ] — and S(t) for the share of published interpretability results built on a method that has cleared an agreed, cross-lab benchmark rather than a proxy metric of the kind SAEBench found unreliable [ 10 ] . A regulator or a court asked to accept mechanistic evidence needs both a guarantee about how much of…
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A function assigns an output to each allowed input. The expression f(x) means “apply f to x”.
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Sources cited in the surrounding passage
- [2] Circuit Tracing: Revealing Computational Graphs in Language Models ↗
- [10] SAEBench: A Comprehensive Benchmark for Sparse Autoencoders in Language Model Interpretability ↗
- [11] Safety cases at AISI ↗
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