Tom McGrath believes most active AI safety practitioners consider research using interpretability signals to steer training reasonable to study.

“I think this has been sort of generalized into a total taboo against doing any kind of research on this sort by like a small fraction of the community. I think actually the vast majority of the safety community,”

“like the kind of people who are active practitioners in the area,”

“think not only this is a reasonable approach,”

“like this is a reasonable thing to study,”