The 26,000-Word Claim That’s Reshaping How We Think About AI’s ‘Black Box’
Reading Time: 5 minutesNick Cammarata of Goodfire has published a viral 26,000-word argument that neural networks are more understandable than the AI field has assumed, pointing to a hidden geometric logic inside individual neurons. Leading researchers welcome the optimism but warn that less than 0.01% of frontier LLM internals are currently understood, and the hardest questions about circuit-level behavior remain wide open.