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Small understood net to verify large one

The approach most likely to ultimately succeed at understanding powerful models is to have a small, well-understood neural net given the task of studying and verifying the behavior of a large neural net that is not understood.

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Speaker

Ilya Sutskever

Evidence Quote

we will have a small neural net that is well understood that’s been given the task to study the behavior of a large neural net that is not understood, to verify.

Source

Ilya Sutskever (OpenAI Chief Scientist) — Why next-token prediction could surpass human intelligenceDwarkesh Patel Podcast
Created: 6/13/2026, 3:26:51 AM

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