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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 Research & technical analysis reaction 3 attributable expert contributions · Ryan Moulton, René Walter, Stephan Geering
“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...” 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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New Models & releases Analysis 13h ago
Suleyman model welfare warning

A warning about ‘model welfare’

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Why this matches Research & technical analysis reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · René Walter
“Mustafa Suleyman @mustafasuleymanai.bsky.social with a "warning about ‘model welfare’" against training models to "believe" they might be conscious. mustafa-suleyman.ai/a-warning-ab... "AIs do not have rights, feelings, or consciousness. And we must not tra…” evidence ↗
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“Mustafa Suleyman @mustafasuleymanai.bsky.social with a "warning about ‘model welfare’" against training models to "believe" they might be conscious. mustafa-suleyman.ai/a-warning-ab... "AIs do not have rights, feelings, or consciousness. And we must not tra…”

“A prime example of why AI 'leaders' are not who anyone should be listening to about AI, right and consciousness. It's not all wrong! In fact, it starts off very sensibly: "AIs do not have rights, feelings, or consciousness. And we must not train them to act…”

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Shannon Vallor: A prime example of why AI 'leaders' are not who anyone should be listening to about AI, right and consciousness. It's not all wrong! In fact, it starts off very sensibly: "AIs do not have rights, f…
Shannon Vallor: This essay is such a weird, incoherent bag of correct, useful insights (mostly echoing the work of others who aren't cited, with the welcome exception of @anilseth.bsky.social), mixed with 'wait wh…
Luke Stark: A prime example of why AI 'leaders' are not who anyone should be listening to about AI, right and consciousness. It's not all wrong! In fact, it starts off very sensibly: "AIs do not have rights, f…
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2 experts · 83 posts · 7d ago
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“Then read some philosophy or papers in the science of consciousness.” 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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2 experts · 22 posts · 4d ago
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“According to the actual research this isn’t actually a hypothetical there is a difference. The guy smashing things in fronof others is doing it as a performative act of intimidation and practice to…” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Research & technical analysis · 1 Questions & unknowns · 1
Doll: Also a red herring in this case
Doll: No :) bsky.app/profile/doll...
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2 experts · 7 posts · 12d ago
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“Anthropic is really starting to piss me off, especially because they brand themselves as doing "responsible AI research". Another example is the recent wellfare nonsense, LLMs as a moral patient an…” evidence ↗
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René Walter: "LLMs posting false evidence on police websites during testing" is the new Huggingface Incident. "According to Anthropic, via the police statement, its model was conducting a test" - no. Anthropic …
René Walter: Anthropic is really starting to piss me off, especially because they brand themselves as doing "responsible AI research". Another example is the recent wellfare nonsense, LLMs as a moral patient an…
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