Engineers understand the process that grows a model but not what grows inside it, so its dispositions are found by running it, not read off by inspecting it. A safety case that depends on knowing what is inside a frontier model rests on the weakest part of the science; one that depends on recording and checking what it does rests on the strongest.

Feeds: collective, correctable AI. SUPPORTS it: if nobody can read a model's dispositions from inside, safety has to come from recording and checking what the system does, which is the design we build (C-KGCG1TXD0D, C-1XX6QA8YD7). A lab whose safety case rests on internal understanding of one model is leaning on the weakest science.

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Evidence 3 passages

groundsIf Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies, Eliezer Yudkowsky
No programmer at Microsoft decided to have that happen.
groundsIf Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies, Eliezer Yudkowsky
To figure that out, engineers can only run the AI and see what happens.
groundsIf Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies, Eliezer Yudkowsky
do not much understand what goes on inside the AI minds they manage to

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