Intent Is All You Need.

An anonymous researcher is sharing work on LessWrong: they built an interpretability toolkit for large language models using only free-tier cloud resources and no GPU. Over several months, the framework grew to thirty thousand lines of code and can analyze models up to seventy billion parameters on modest hardware. Their findings replicate and extend prior research on model behaviors, particularly how models develop safety-aligned responses. They conclude that the fundamental safety threat from advanced AI has shifted from actor capability to actor intent—from what systems can do to what they're oriented toward doing. It's presented as a thesis for the research community to engage with.

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