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Multiple readings Verbalizable Representations Form a Global Workspace in Language Models Opportunity & adoption · 9 attributable reactions Shared emphasis Usage Policy Policy & governance · 2 attributable reactions
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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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Mark Riedl Ethan Mollick Tim Kellogg Ryan Moulton Grace Matthew Kirschenbaum Matthew Green Edouard Machery +7
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Multiple readings

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…”

Research & technical analysis

3 experts

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…”

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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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Primary source transformer-circuits.pub ↗ anthropic.com ↗
Established AI field signal Signal 13d ago

An open letter to steven pinker on

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Melanie Mitchell Aaron Clauset Andrea Lathrop david-p-reichert.bsky.social

“I got insulted online by Scott Alexander! Fun times. I guess he hasn't read any of my work since the 1980s. https://t.co/KmciJm7gjx https://t.co/JwlKYdZS9l”

“Steven Pinker, in the twilight of his career, remains undefeated in his capacity to embarrass himself in public by saying dumb things about topics outside his expertise www.astralcodexten.com/p/an-open-le...”

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Aaron Clauset: Steven Pinker, in the twilight of his career, remains undefeated in his capacity to embarrass himself in public by saying dumb things about topics outside his expertise www.astralcodexten.com/p/an-…
Carlos Scheidegger: Although, given this specific poster, I’m presently of the ”let them fight” persuasion
Aaron Clauset: Heh. Yes. 🍿 Meanwhile, the rest of us "regular intellectuals" can stay focused on doing the slower, harder work of actual science?
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Established Policy & governance Signal 13d ago
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Usage Policy

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Dustin Moskovitz david-p-reichert.bsky.social
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Kat Tenbarge: Anthropic banning “abusive or cruel behavior” toward Claude in its new usage policies is proof to me that tech companies are going to moderate violence against AI before they ever moderate violence…
Alex Hanna: Anthropic banning “abusive or cruel behavior” toward Claude in its new usage policies is proof to me that tech companies are going to moderate violence against AI before they ever moderate violence…
Neil Turkewitz: 🙏🏽🎯 God, the irony of Anthropic restricting “abusive or cruel behavior” towards Claude while operating a system dependent on stolen property which effectively recapitulates its origin story by erod…
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Established AI field signal Analysis 20d ago
AI code-shaped world essay

AI and a code-shaped world: some examples

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“Some examples for me: davidpreichert.substack.com/p/ai-and-a-c...”

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david-p-reichert.bsky.social: The goal remains the same: convey to people who haven't been exposed to recent developments what is now becoming possible, so that we can take AI seriously and figure out what this all means for th…
david-p-reichert.bsky.social: A follow-up to my last substack about agents vs chatbots. This time I'm showing some more down-to-earth examples of agents in action, as opposed to machine learning. Anything from modelling histori…
Benjamin Riley: Interesting read. Re "what if more of the rest of the world shapes itself around coding?", given the mounting stories about AI agents exploiting cybersecurity vulnerabilities, I wonder (ok suspect)…
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8 experts · 20 posts · 7d ago
Grace Colin Dan Hon tweety fish René Walter Singularity's Bounty e/cc Andrea Lathrop david-p-reichert.bsky.social
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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4 experts · 13 posts · 11d ago
Eli Sennesh rev. howard arson tweety fish david-p-reichert.bsky.social
Shared emphasis Context & explanation · 2
rev. howard arson: i think the more plausible implication is that consciousness is a family of related reflexive models of future states which are not always aggregated in the way that they are in humans, and "are LL…
rev. howard arson: the thing is that I agree that consciousness is linked to something timeline but you're talking about a dimension with a specifically Lorentzian signature (which does not seem to be important to me…
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3 experts · 3 posts · 8d ago
SE Gyges Doll david-p-reichert.bsky.social
Multiple readings Policy & governance · 1 Questions & unknowns · 1
SE Gyges: anthropic cares about safety as long as it is purely hypothetical safety that does not meaningfully impede their operations or profitability. they got into an argument with the government about a h…
david-p-reichert.bsky.social: Can I ask, in your view, how do you think Anthropic compares to the other labs here?
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2 experts · 5 posts · 8d ago
Eugene Vinitsky david-p-reichert.bsky.social
Multiple readings Concern & critique · 1 Policy & governance · 1
Eugene Vinitsky: Like, I don't agree with their arguments! But if you follow their own arguments to their conclusions, they literally should not be allowed to pursue their own research without extreme government ov…
Eugene Vinitsky: Most AI doom arguments are implicitly arguments for nationalizing the labs.
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2 experts · 7 posts · 12d ago
René Walter david-p-reichert.bsky.social
Shared emphasis Research & technical analysis · 2
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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