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# How To Become A Mechanistic Interpretability Researcher

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Neel Nanda's AI Alignment Forum guide on how to become a mechanistic interpretability researcher, which replaced his earlier getting-started page.

Level: [Intermediate](/levels/index.md)
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Category: [Jailbreaking and red teaming](/security-and-red-teaming/index.md)
Tags: [interpretability](/tags/interpretability/index.md), [safety-security-interpretability](/tags/safety-security-interpretability/index.md)
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