An analysis of AI-generated content at the Mechanistic Interpretability Workshop

IntroductionOver the past few years, AI tools have become useful for conducting technical AI research. In the early ChatGPT era (~2023–2024), chat assistants were maybe useful as sounding boards for research ideas, or as editors for polishing a paper draft. In the more recent Claude Code era, competent coding agents can code up and run experiments; with enough direction, they can do much of the technical heavy lifting on a PhD-level research project (Schwartz, 2026); and in well-defined settings...