Mechanistic Interpretability Hits the Wall Between Understanding and Fixing

The practical consequence of the interpretability-intervention split is that every safety framework premised on 'we can find the problem and correct it' inherits an unproven assumption at its center. Anthropic, DeepMind, and the broader alignment community have positioned and verifiable safety guarantees. What the EA Forum's 'pragmatic interpretability trap' analysis makes explicit is that the field has been selecting for interventions that clear a benchmark bar, not for understanding that enables targeted correction . The safety case built on interpretability does not…