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Whether interpretability evidence becomes admissible for a safety certification is not a third axis; it is what the other two jointly produce, and the joint requirement is a conjunction rather than an average. 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…
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Equation 3 · AI Research
Mechanistic Interpretability in 2035: Scenarios and Falsifiers
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Whether interpretability evidence becomes admissible for a safety certification is not a third axis; it is what the other two jointly produce, and the joint requirement is a conjunction rather than an average. 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…
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Mechanistic Interpretability in 2035: Scenarios and Falsifiers
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R(t) stays at zero however high either term climbs alone, exactly as the AISI account above already anticipates by asking for outside validation before treating interpretability-based detection as sufficient on its own [ 11 ] . Axis A determines whether A(t) can plausibly clear within the horizon this article considers; Axis B determines whether S(t) can. Neither can be inferred from the other, which is why they are kept as two axes rather than folded into one.
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Mechanistic Interpretability in 2035: Scenarios and Falsifiers
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Observable indicators. Coverage figures comparable to scenario one’s threshold appear in system cards, reported alongside method-specific metrics that do not map onto a competitor’s; RAVEL- and SAEBench-style benchmarks keep publishing but adoption stays partial; A(t) clears the coverage bar this article’s model requires while S(t) does not, so R(t) stays at zero even as raw coverage looks like scenario one’s.
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Mechanistic Interpretability in 2035: Scenarios and Falsifiers
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Observable indicators. Published coverage figures plateau in roughly the range Circuit Tracing already reports even as benchmark adoption becomes near-universal; safety cases and certifications, where they use interpretability at all, name specific bounded claims rather than model-wide guarantees [ 12 ] ; S(t) clears its threshold while A(t) does not, so R(t) stays zero for broad claims and becomes available only for a narrower, differently defined admissibility condition this article does not formalize.
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