Regtech could eventually help enable legal compliance—but first we must be able to understand how AI works
To better understand why large language models behave as they do, frontier artificial intelligence (AI) laboratories have been working on the science of interpretability. In 2025, Anthropic’s researchers published maps of how their model arrives at an answer, showing, for instance, that it decides what the rhyme at the end of a line should be before it begins writing it.
