Explanation Multiplicity: Circuit-Level Interpretability Evidence Does Not Survive Defensible Analytic Variation

arXiv cs.AIAugust 17, 2026en

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arXiv:2608.13754v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The EU AI Act requires providers of high-risk systems to file technical documentation describing how the system reaches its decisions. Mechanistic interpretability is the obvious source of such evidence, and circuit discovery is its most developed instrument. We ask whether that evidence survives the condition under which it would be relied upon: two competent analysts, the same system, the same tool, different defensible settings. We pre-registered a crossed grid of seven analytic axes, every level taken from a published implementation, and mapped each discovered circuit through a deterministic claim map to a structured Annex IV statement. Acr

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