person
John Wentworth
Independent alignment researcher; natural abstractions
Independent alignment researcher who developed the 'natural abstractions hypothesis' as a framing for whether human concepts robustly transfer to learned representations.
current Alignment Researcher, Independent
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Interpretability betendorses
Mechanistic interpretability is necessary and sufficient to know models are safeArgues alignment requires identifying the abstractions a model converges on; if these match human concepts, training-time supervision becomes far more reliable.
The natural abstractions hypothesis is roughly: a wide variety of cognitive systems will converge to use the same high-level abstractions for reasoning about the world.
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Record last updated 2026-04-25.