In (highly contingent!) defense of interpretability-in-the-loop ML training — LessWrong

Let’s call “interpretability-in-the-loop training” the idea of running a learning algorithm that involves an inscrutable trained model, and there’s s…

x In (highly contingent!) defense of interpretability-in-the-loop ML training — LessWrong Agent Foundations Interpretability (ML & AI) AI Frontpage 85 In (highly contingent!) defense of interpretability-in-the-loop ML training by Steven Byrnes 6th Feb 2026 AI Alignment Forum 4 min read 11 85 Ω 35 Let’s call “interpretability-in-the-loop training” the idea of running a learning algorithm that involves an inscrutable trained model, and there’s some kind of interpretability system feeding into the loss function / reward function. Interpretability-in-the-loop training has a very bad rap (and right

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