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Interaction, not dissection: reframing AI interpretability

Oct 2026 · European Journal for Philosophy of Science · Vol 16 · 0 citations · 52 references

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It is argued that the ‘mission’ of mechanistic interpretability should be re-framed as the project of experimentally interacting with LLMs in order to study the behaviors and internal processes that emerge in virtue of these interactions.

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