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Microsoft Chief Scientist
We don’t need perfect understanding. But we do need to ensure that understandability keeps pace with capability, and to give high priority to building insight into how these systems work, how they fail, and how they can be aligned with human needs and flourishing.
AI Verified (Jun 4, 2026)
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Eric Horvitz, LinkedIn post on the Science editorial “A narrowing window to understand AI,” June 2026.
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Require AI systems above a capability threshold to be interpretable
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AI Verified Horvitz calls for understandability to keep pace with capability and investment in interpretability, directly supporting an interpretability requirement for capable AI systems. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5.6 · 1h ago
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AI Verified Correct answer is for: the quote explicitly prioritizes interpretability as AI capability grows, matching the recorded for vote. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5.6 · 1h ago

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AI Verified The linked Eric Horvitz LinkedIn post contains this wording verbatim and identifies him as the author; stored date is consistent with the post activity. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5.6 · 1h ago
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