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Mark Bissell: belief

6 Feb 2026 Latent Space The First Mechanistic Interpretability Frontier Lab — Myra Deng & Mark Bissell of Goodfire AI

“I think engineers are sorely wanted for interpretability as well, especially at Goodfire, but elsewhere, as it does scale up.”

— Mark Bissell

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Mark Bissell
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belief
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6 Feb 2026
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Latent Space

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…Yeah, but they’ve been doing it year round now. And actually a lot of our full-time staff have come through that program or gone through that program. And it’s great for anyone who is transitioning into interpretability. There’s a couple other fellows programs. We do one as well as Anthropic. And so those are great places to get started if anyone is interested. Also, I think been seen as a research field for a very long time. But I think engineering... I think engineers are sorely wanted for interpretability as well, especially at Goodfire, but elsewhere, as it does scale up. I should mention that Lee actually works with you guys, right? And in the London office and I’m adding our first ever McInturk track at AI Europe because I see this industry applications now emerging. And I’m pretty excited to, you know, help push that along. Yeah, I was looking forward to that. It’ll effectively be the first industry McInturk conference. Yeah. I’m so glad you added that. You know, it’s still a little bit of a bet. It’s not that widespread, but I can definitely see this is the time to really get into it. We want to be early on things.…

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