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Reaction converging Verbalizable Representations Form a Global Workspace in Language Models Opportunity & adoption · 5 attributable reactions
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New Models & releases Analysis 12h ago
Suleyman model welfare warning

A warning about ‘model welfare’

7 experts across 3 network communities independently surfaced this.

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Shannon Vallor Luke Stark Jason Koebler Anna Mills Mary Branscombe René Walter david-p-reichert.bsky.social

“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…”

“this is manipulative design by AI companies. you should read this, written by the head of Microsoft AI: mustafa-suleyman.ai/a-warning-ab...”

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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

6 experts across 4 network communities independently surfaced this.

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Mark Riedl Tim Kellogg Matthew Kirschenbaum Edouard Machery Nafnlaus 🇮🇸 🇺🇦 david-p-reichert.bsky.social
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Reaction converging

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“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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“Anthropic uses the word “conscious” 206 times in their latest research Specifically, they’re showing that LLMs implement one of the leading explanations of consciousness in humans (see pic) transformer-circuits.pub/2026/workspa...”

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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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