According to Chris Olah, mechanistic faithfulness is the most important question in the sparse autoencoder debate, and he shared a simple example to isolate it. Source: Chris Olah on X, 2025-08-08, https://twitter.com/ch402/status/1953678115332673662 This elevates whether SAE-derived features faithfully reflect transformer internals, echoing Anthropic's finding that SAEs can yield monosemantic features in GPT-style models that enable more reliable circuit-level analysis. Source: Anthropic, Towards Monosemanticity, 2023-10-12, https://www.anthropic.com/research/sae For crypto-oriented traders, interpretability and safety milestones inform trust and verification in AI agents that interact on-chain, a linkage outlined by a16z's AI x Crypto thesis on provenance and accountability. Source: a16z, Why AI Needs Crypto, 2023-06-06, https://a16z.com/why-ai-needs-crypto