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Despite these daunting risks, recent progress in the field of interpretability offers a glimmer of hope. Over the past year, scientists at Anthropic have achieved remarkable breakthroughs in understanding how AI models think.
These advances include the identification of individual "neurons" that respond to specific concepts—similar to the famous "Jennifer Aniston neuron" in human brains. Researchers have also tackled the challenge of superposition, where multiple concepts are tangled together, by employing techniques like sparse autoencoders to untangle features.