Mechanistic Interpretability and Applications: The Final Frontier of Hacking (COSCUP 2026 draft)

I feel lucky that I get to present my ~~BS~~ encouragement at COSCUP to prevent AI apocalypse, based on my work on RWKV. Hopefully landing in 40C3 too later this year. I dabbled into mechanistic interpretability as I am bored one day while also under existential dread that AI is gonna kill us all ...