SAE Feature Extraction: Seeing Model Representations Through the Residual Stream

Anthropic’s research team trained sparse autoencoders (SAEs) with up to 34 million features in Claude 3 Sonnet, extracting interpretable feature representations. The research shows causal effects on model output behavior, providing internal signals and potential tools that can be studied for AI safety governance, though faithfulness still requires validation.

Sparrow Paper: Training Trustworthy Dialogue Agents with Rule-Conditional Reward Models

The CI/CD pipeline is red again. You switch back to the logs and find the model confidently inventing an API endpoint that does not exist. DeepMind’s Sparrow paper proposes an RCRM architecture that uses rule-conditional reward models and evidence chains to let the model automatically verify sources while generating. This is not about making the model smarter. It is about teaching it how to prove that its answer is correct.