The safety switch that doesn't actually work

Sparse autoencoders — the core tool of mechanistic interpretability — can identify and amplify specific concepts inside a neural network, but they cannot reliably suppress unwanted behavior by clamping those concepts to "off." A new paper tested this directly: researchers pinned a model's refusal co

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