Circuits Updates - April 2024
We report a number of developing ideas on the Anthropic interpretability team, which might be of interest to researchers working actively in this space. Some of these are emerging strands of research where we expect to publish more on in the coming months. Others are minor points we wish to share, since we're unlikely to ever write a paper about them. We'd ask you to treat these results like those of a colleague sharing some thoughts or preliminary experiments for a few minutes at a lab meeting, rather than a mature paper. New Posts Mechanistic interpretability is a small field, although growing quite quickly. We estimate there are perhaps 50 full time positions focused on this topic. The Anthropic interpretability team is now 17 people, so we represent a significant fraction of these positions. As a result, we felt that providing some visibility into our hiring plans might be valuable for people considering careers in this space. (However, please note that while these are our present
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