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Developing Models & releases Research 1d ago
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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 Opportunity & adoption reaction 4 attributable expert contributions · Mark Riedl, Matthew Kirschenbaum, Nafnlaus 🇮🇸 🇺🇦
“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…” 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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Evidence, methods and technical implications.

“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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Established AI field signal Signal 16d ago

AI Just Crossed the Terrifying Line - Now What?

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Why this matches Opportunity & adoption reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · david-p-reichert.bsky.social
“IMO this a fantastic explanation by @kurzgesagt.org of the HuggingFace incident and what it all means for a general audience. (If you can deal with a clickbaity title and slight dramatisation, anthropomorphisation -- also addressed & justified briefly -- an…” evidence ↗
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“IMO this a fantastic explanation by @kurzgesagt.org of the HuggingFace incident and what it all means for a general audience. (If you can deal with a clickbaity title and slight dramatisation, anthropomorphisation -- also addressed & justified briefly -- an…”

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8 experts · 20 posts · 8d ago
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“I guess the prime example of this are gods and myth in general? Also, i think fictional characters always reacted to the world, and that this is their job basically, just not very fast. Socmed firs…” evidence ↗
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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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2 experts · 83 posts · 7d ago
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“Nah I'm pretty happy with my actions and where my paychecks are going actually.” evidence ↗
Singularity's Bounty e/cc: (Checks the replies since I replied) Thoughts and prayers What I like is you posted it thoughtfully and not with exaggeration or hyperbole
Singularity's Bounty e/cc: I also like you caught the distinction I missed, agents not LLMs. I need to be more careful with my language
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