Safety
92d agoNew Research Agenda For Cognitive Interpretability
Developmental Cognitive Interpretability (DCI) proposes modeling how latent constructs like goals and motivations evolve during training. This approach seeks to predict agent behavior on out-of-distribution inputs where standard evaluations fail. LessWrong researchers argue that tracking cognitive shifts prevents misidentifying scheming as alignment.
The Signal
Practitioners can use DCI to increase pre-deployment confidence.