Adly Templeton; Tom Conerly; Jonathan Marcus; Jack Lindsey; Trenton Bricken; Brian Chen; Adam Jermyn; et al. · Anthropic
First demonstration that sparse autoencoders scale from toy models to a frontier production model, published as a browsable index of millions of features — including the Golden Gate Bridge feature that later became a public demo.
The moment interpretability stopped being a toy-model science, and the origin of the field's most famous public artefact.
High · Read the article; cross-referenced in BlueDot and ACX pieces, 2026-08-06
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