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I was interested to hear what more of the mech interp crowd thinks of this, so I am crossposting this here as well: https://interpretability.blog/2025/07/22/interpretability-for-science-or-control/ ...I will take this opportunity to give my personal and subjective experience of the “Actionable Interpretability” workshop at ICML 2025 and then just connect my thoughts...

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I was interested to hear what more of the mech interp crowd thinks of this, so I am crossposting this here as well:
https://interpretability.blog/2025/07/22/interpretability-for-science-or-control/

...I will take this opportunity to give my personal and subjective experience of the “Actionable Interpretability” workshop at ICML 2025 and then just connect my thoughts with some of the larger trends in the field of interpretability.

I want to start off, however, with the end of this workshop, which had a panel like most. In one of the questions, the panel was asked:

Given that non-interpretability researchers often consider interpretability not that useful, how can we make our interpretability research more interesting to other fields, especially CV/NLP? In other words, are

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Is Interpretability for Control or for Science?