AMODEI: 'WE DO NOT UNDERSTAND HOW OUR OWN AI CREATIONS WORK'
“People outside the field are often surprised and alarmed to learn that we do not understand how our own AI creations work. They are right to be concerned: this lack of understanding is essentially unprecedented in the history of technology.”
From Amodei's April 2025 essay 'The Urgency of Interpretability.' The frontier lab CEO admitting the field's core embarrassment in plain language. Reusable at any AI-accident event; his stated 2027 interpretability goal approaches.
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ORIGINAL SOURCEThe Urgency of Interpretabilitydarioamodei.com (first-party essay) (contiguous excerpt)