Mechanistic interpretability: 10 Breakthrough Technologies 2026 | MIT Technology Review

New techniques are giving researchers a glimpse at the inner workings of AI models.

Mechanistic interpretability: 10 Breakthrough Technologies 2026 | MIT Technology Review Skip to Content 10 Breakthrough Technologies 2026 See the full list Hundreds of millions of people now use chatbots every day. And yet the large language models that drive them are so complicated that nobody really understands what they are, how they work, or exactly what they can and can’t do—not even the people who build them. Weird, right? It’s also a problem. Without a clear idea of what’s going on under the hood, it’s hard to get a grip on the technology’s limitations, figure out exactly why models hal

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