Inside AI’s Black Box: How Mechanistic Interpretability Became 2026’s Biggest Research Breakthrough
For years, AI models have been treated as black boxes: data goes in, predictions come out, and nobody fully understands what happens in between. That’s changing. MIT Technology Review named mechanistic interpretability a top breakthrough technology for 2026, and the research coming out of Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google DeepMind is revealing how AI models actually…