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global workspace theory language models paper

Verbalizable Representations Form a Global Workspace in Language Models

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Why this matches Building & implementation reaction 2 attributable expert contributions · Ethan Mollick, Tim Kellogg
“Some really interesting research from Anthropic that AI models have spontaneously developed a workspace that "appears to support the functions associated with conscious access" Demo of how this works: www.neuronpedia.org/qwen3.6-27b/... Research: www.anthro…” evidence ↗
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Opportunity & adoption

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New capabilities, benefits and practical upside.

“here is the Anthropic blog: transformer-circuits.pub/2026/workspa... I don't really like the framing of whether LLMs are conscious or not. It's completely unnecessary. As is the hand-waiving about whether LLMs have something equivalent to the (functional) g…”

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“No one is presenting this as a certainty. They are presenting it as an empirical observation, partially through the capabilities of the models, and partially by examining what is going on in side of them e.g. www.anthropic.com/research/glo...”

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“Some really interesting research from Anthropic that AI models have spontaneously developed a workspace that "appears to support the functions associated with conscious access" Demo of how this works: www.neuronpedia.org/qwen3.6-27b/... Research: www.anthro…”

7 experts discussed this · 203 posts
Anil Dash: this is not an accurate description of what's happening. not least because I can write code and get them to output something different there. I can understand why it *seems* that way, but this is j…
Anil Dash: Who are you explaining this to?
Anil Dash: Do you see why explaining "All output from AI has to be validated" in a reply to me here is... not a useful contribution?
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8 experts · 20 posts · 8d ago
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“So either we have fictional characters that are integrated into our world in this way, or these characters have ceased to be fully fictional in some way.” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Concern & critique · 1 Building & implementation · 1 Opportunity & adoption · 1
Grace: So either we have fictional characters that are integrated into our world in this way, or these characters have ceased to be fully fictional in some way.
Grace: Beyond this, LLM personas also close the loop of output and input- they can take actions in the world, see the results of those actions, and react to them. So they become causally integrated into o…
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6 experts · 24 posts · 19d ago
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“integration? No, this has nothing to do with that, that's like a civil rights era thing. I'm talking about curves here. Like any curve. On a graph. Doesn't have to even be a curve of a particular t…” evidence ↗
Grace: Just found out the Pope doesn’t believe in computational theory of mind. My day is ruined
zzstoatzz.io: Really? ~33 AD: first documented mind restored from backup onto new hardware. substrate independence is canon. 1 Cor 15:44
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