Matthew Green

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I teach cryptography at Johns Hopkins. https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com

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@Nairebis @perrymetzger We are starting to find emergent mechanisms that at least superficially resemble this. I don’t claim their consciousness. But you could imagine something like this becoming an element of consciousness in a larger persistent model. https://t.co/w3G827cdJX

A global workspace in language models \ Anthropic anthropic.com
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  • Anthropic says Claude has a 'J-space' of dozens of concepts, under a tenth of neural activity, that mediates multi-step reasoning.
  • Swapping 'spider' for 'ant' inside the J-space changed Claude's leg-count answer from 8 to 6, demonstrating a causal role.
  • A 'J-lens' tool surfaced silent words like 'fake', 'fictional' and 'manipulation' during deception tests, pointing at safety uses.
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I’ve been working on a hobby project to crack classical ciphers. The guts of it is to see whether frontier LLMs, given the right tools, can do a good job cracking a broad range of historical ciphers. github.com/matthewdgree...

GitHub - matthewdgreen/decipher: An AI-enabled application for cracking ciphers github.com
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  • Cryptographer Matthew D. Green released Decipher, an open-source toolkit that cracks classical ciphers via CLI, an MCP server, or an agentic LLM loop.
  • The toolkit bundles Rust-accelerated simulated annealing solvers covering substitution, Vigenère, Quagmire, transposition and composite pipelines under GPLv3.
  • Its README explicitly instructs AI agents not to fetch or build external frameworks like cDecryptor, AZdecrypt or zkdecrypto during tasks.
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Me: makes silly offhand comment about AI and public key cryptanalysis. People freak out. Also me: does a serious analysis of cryptanalytic effort so far set against recent LLM math results, which is (IMHO) wildly more terrifying. Nobody notices.

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So I told GPT-6 to make me a virtualized simulation of a water treatment plant and now I’m spending a lot of time saying “please document that this is just for defensive purposes” because I realize how bad it looks.

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I would be interested in an actual discussion of AI consciousness that isn’t just assertions, or facile arguments about current models having limited memories. (We don’t treat amnesiacs as lacking consciousness.)

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