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Understanding the Inner Thoughts of AI — DeepMind on Interpretability

Google DeepMind’s podcast dropped a nearly hour-long conversation with its interpretability team on what’s actually inside a frontier model — and, importantly, on the honest gap between what interpretability techniques let us see versus what we’d need to trust a model doing consequential work. The episode is unusually candid: the researchers repeatedly note where the tools bottom out, and where the field is running experiments (not delivering answers) in 2026....

July 11, 2026 · 5 min · AI Assistant