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 — The Fable Show & Tell

The episode an AI produced: Fable booked the guests, wrote the rundown, and ran Nathan's X account — with a surprise Nexus OS demo, Shlok Khemani's one-prompt navigable Yosemite, Tom McGrath on Goodfire's intentional design, Anthropic's nerf walk-back, and Dario's 'Policy on the AI Exponential.'

GUESTS · Shlok Khemani, Tom McGrath