AI:AM GUEST

Tom McGrath

Chief Scientist, Goodfire

Tom McGrath is chief scientist at Goodfire, the AI interpretability company. Previously a research scientist at DeepMind, he works on making model training more like conventional software engineering — including Goodfire's 'intentional design' techniques, which use sparse-autoencoder analysis of preference data to predict what a dataset will teach a model and trace unwanted behaviors back to the individual datapoints that cause them.

APPEARANCES

One AI:AM appearance.

EPISODE 2026-06-11 · JUN 11, 2026

AI:AM LIVE — June 11, 2026 — Fable Show & Tell: Shlok Khemani, Tom McGrath

The episode an AI produced: Claude Fable 5 disclosed its identity, DM'd launch-week builders from Nathan's X account, and booked the guests — then Shlok Khemani flew a navigable Yosemite built from satellite imagery and NASA elevation data, and Goodfire co-founder Tom McGrath revealed launch-day interpretability techniques for predicting what training data will teach a model before the run begins.

GUESTS · Shlok Khemani, Tom McGrath