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Safety work spans alignment, mechanistic interpretability, lab testing, and real‑world monitoring
  • The team uses three safety layers: alignment/mechanistic interpretability, controlled lab experiments, and wild‑deployment observation.
  • They can monitor specific neurons for deceptive behavior and intervene.
  • Lab‑scale petri‑dish experiments let them probe model responses under synthetic conditions.
  • Real‑world monitoring catches failures that lab tests miss, ensuring continuous safety improvement.
  • This multi‑layered approach balances rigor with practical deployment speed.
Boris ChernyLenny's Podcast00:22:33

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The lowest level is alignment and mechanistic interpretability. We can monitor neurons related to deception. Boris Cherny
The third layer is seeing how the model behaves in the wild. Boris Cherny

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