# Bad Influence story: Fazl Barez presents a survey of mechanistic interpretability for AI safety

Active · 1 article · 1 source · First reported 11-09 16:43. Times are ET.
Story page: https://badinfluence.news/story/67d33db4-eaea-4411-9044-05a296f53ccb

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Latest update (11-09 16:43): Fazl Barez presents a survey of mechanistic interpretability for AI safety

Overview: Fazl Barez and collaborators present an opinionated survey of mechanistic interpretability (MI) for AI safety. The survey describes conceptual approaches and techniques under the MI label and explains how different types of MI work relate to making AI models safer, according to the authors' description as relayed in a post by Dongxi NLP.

The only source is a single social media post quoting the paper's abstract. The post does not report any findings from the survey or give further details of its contents.

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1. 11-09 16:43 · Dongxi NLP · [Fazl Barez presents a survey of mechanistic interpretability for AI safety](https://badinfluence.news/items/ughd68btt4upbaigrrsh5dsbh)
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