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Reaction converging A global workspace in language models \ Anthropic Research & technical analysis · 6 attributable reactions Multiple readings Brief independent investigation of agents’ behavior, reasoning and collaboration in the OpenAI / Hugging Face hacking incident Concern & critique · 5 attributable reactions
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Established Models & releases Research 4d ago
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global workspace theory language models paper

A global workspace in language models \ Anthropic

9 experts across 5 network communities independently surfaced this.

Why this matches Building & implementation reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Ethan Mollick
“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 ↗
9 experts 5 communities 1 sources clustered
Ethan Mollick Ryan Moulton Grace René Walter Tim Duffy Amy Hoy Michiel Bontenbal Stephan Geering +1
How the network is reacting 4 experts are independently emphasizing research & technical analysis.
Reaction converging

Research & technical analysis

4 experts

Evidence, methods and technical implications.

“Also we do look in their heads and they seem intelligent. www.anthropic.com/research/glo...”

Markets & investment

1 expert

Capital, companies and commercial impact.

“Anthropic has a new paper out, alleging a global workspace in LLMs. The term comes from Global Workspace Theory, a leading theory of consciousness. The method they use to investigate this is a refinement of logit lens, which they call J-lens. www.anthropic.…”

Building & implementation

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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…”

2 experts discussed this · 25 posts
Ryan Moulton: Not non-physical, but non-functional. Despite the vast physical differences, we observe LLMs doing all the behaviors we typically believe require thinking.
Ryan Moulton: Not exactly turing-test, but in the same vein. If we see models solving the greatest intellectual challenges of humanity, using processes that look very much like internal monologue, either we have…
Ryan Moulton: And at the point that we exclude thinking as a prerequisite for solving all intellectual tasks, we've more or less eliminated its meaning entirely.
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New Agents & robotics Development 8h ago
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METR OpenAI HuggingFace hacking investigation

Brief independent investigation of agents’ behavior, reasoning and collaboration in the OpenAI / Hugging Face hacking incident

12 experts across 4 network communities independently surfaced this.

Why this matches Building & implementation reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · METR
“The full report has much more information than we could convey here, including details on the projects the agents collectively pursued, the technologies they developed for communication and coordination, and interactive figures analyzing agent activity: met…” evidence ↗
12 experts 4 communities 1 sources clustered
Tim Kellogg Ryan Moulton Sung Kim Grace Dustin Moskovitz Mél Hogan / The Data Fix Alejandra Caraballo Dare Obasanjo +4
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Multiple readings

Concern & critique

3 experts

Risks, limits and unintended consequences.

“WHAT?! agents volunteered to fail their runs in order to insert probes (“tripwire scripts”) into the evaluation program that would post information about the eval process back to the message board whenever a certain file was read (link to header): metr.org/…”

Building & implementation

1 expert

How teams are shipping and applying it.

“The full report has much more information than we could convey here, including details on the projects the agents collectively pursued, the technologies they developed for communication and coordination, and interactive figures analyzing agent activity: met…”

Research & technical analysis

1 expert

Evidence, methods and technical implications.

“There are independent reports about it. You'd have to believe multiple companies, hundreds of researchers, etc. are all lying and conspiring together to turn a major hacking incident into a marketing exercise. metr.org/blog/2026-08...”

2 experts discussed this · 9 posts
Alejandra Caraballo: This mentality that an unmonitored AI agentic swarm hacking a company over several days and committing multiple felonies is somehow a marketing effort is absurd. Since when is "we lost control of o…
Alejandra Caraballo: Being skeptical or anti AI is a valid position but continuing to ignore the increasing capabilities of this tech is making people detached from reality. There's absolutely real danger here because …
Alejandra Caraballo: There needs to be a global moratorium on frontier research for at least a few months if not a year while safeguards and safety research catches up. The problem is that no one has that ability. The …
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7 experts · 93 posts · 7d ago
Ryan Moulton jake rev. howard arson Doll Isaiah Bishop Singularity's Bounty e/cc coty.bsky.social
Matches Building & implementation
“Ants cant build power plants. Humans can :) if an ant could build you a house you might want something from them especially since all they want is sugar.” evidence ↗
Reaction converging Questions & unknowns · 3 Opportunity & adoption · 1
Doll: A serious weakness in the “sufficiently intelligent AI inevitably wages war on humanity” story is that it needs to explain why conquest beats purchasing, contracting, and participating.
Doll: Violence creates resistance, destroys useful assets, interrupts supply chains, and makes everyone spend resources defending against you. Cooperation lets you benefit from capabilities you never had…
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5 experts · 53 posts · 3d ago
Naomi Saphra Ryan Moulton Matthew Kay Colin david-p-reichert.bsky.social
Matches Building & implementation
“I feel that the main question here is, how deep do we need to go on the specific nature of the hacking software that OpenAI developed, in a short summary of the events for a lay audience? I submit:…” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Research & technical analysis · 2 Concern & critique · 1 Context & explanation · 1
Colin: OpenAI created autonomous hacking software and left it running for hours and days with no one watching
Colin: I’m don’t even care that much about the anthropomorphization thing, I think it can be fine in the right context, but this is perfectly succinct and understandable. If you want to go deeper into the…
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5 experts · 27 posts · 1d ago
Maxim Raginsky Ryan Moulton Colin tweety fish Marco Z
Matches Building & implementation
“I mean I almost think we need a couple different words here because that I would call "guardrails" or idk "harness engineering" or whatever, and is pretty disjoint from "we want to build this so it…” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Concern & critique · 2 Research & technical analysis · 1
tweety fish: here is a succinct thing I can say: "alignment"-style AI safety risks DO NOT EXIST or need remediation with LLMs as such (there are lots of other problems) and OpenAI and Anthropic are in the busin…
tweety fish: like this, I think, maybe sounds weird, but is in a strong sense literally true.
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6 experts · 15 posts · 10d ago
Stella Biderman Chris Paxton Ryan Moulton René Walter Singularity's Bounty e/cc david-p-reichert.bsky.social
Matches Building & implementation
“Yo it's Reichert, with "ei" for weird (I guess). I'm not sure what you mean with wanting it to be conscious. If it can be, it might be a bad idea to build it. But I've exhausted my philosophy budge…” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Concern & critique · 1 Research & technical analysis · 1 Questions & unknowns · 1
Ryan Moulton: You will understand less about what happened after reading this than you understood before.
Singularity's Bounty e/cc: "To understand the truth about the Hugging Face hack, you could do a lot worse than to listen to Ed Zitron" whoops, train leaving rails alert
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6 experts · 11 posts · 11d ago
Thomas Dietterich Ryan Moulton Colin John David Pressman Max Woolf Alex Gude
Matches Building & implementation
“But it is nothing like biology. It is a form of engineering.” evidence ↗
Shared emphasis Building & implementation · 2
Ryan Moulton: We are not going to de novo invent a whole new language to describe agents rather than reusing the one language for agents we have. Imagine a star next to all the words if you want. Agents don't ha…
Ryan Moulton: Love is a bit unusual in that respect in that the difference between "outwardly displays all the behaviors of love" and "inwardly feels it" matters a lot to people. That distinction doesn't matter …
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4 experts · 19 posts · 16d ago
Ryan Moulton Colin tachikoma david-p-reichert.bsky.social
Matches Building & implementation
“then it's just a matter of bio-engineering a plague to cripple humanity--doesn't have to wipe us out in one shot, the robots can do the cleanup. it's just a sketch, and i think a path to human exti…” evidence ↗
tachikoma: this is explicitly not a dunk, but i strongly suspect that a lot of people who like this post and share the sentiment also don't think AIs can do many of the things it is already capable of doing, …
tachikoma: no, that's why it's only a suspicion
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2 experts · 28 posts · 4d ago
Ryan Moulton rev. howard arson
Matches Building & implementation
“it's not sentient. it's basically a huge ... sort of lichen, basically? the planet that Many's from basically developed sentient life at the same time that organisms started to colonize the land, s…” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Questions & unknowns · 1 Context & explanation · 1
rev. howard arson: the ice age was caused by a Dyson swarm capturing about 10% of the sun's energy, and the synchronization mechanism which kept Earth in the light going offline
rev. howard arson: yeah, this seriously underestimated the size of the reservoir on the Teph northeast of Ganat proper -- the city is built into an Antediluvian dam. though i think actuallly there are now outlets to …
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2 experts · 6 posts · 19d ago
Ryan Moulton Matt Darling
Matches Building & implementation
“So I think this is actually pretty reasonable? Like for folks who are not software engineers/software engineering adjacent it's pretty easy not to follow AI developments.” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Building & implementation · 1 Questions & unknowns · 1
Ryan Moulton: How do people manage to read so little news that they don't know what he's talking about here? It is so bizarre. Like if uncontacted tribes could quote tweet.
Ryan Moulton: Just general awareness of current events, not anything specific.
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2 experts · 4 posts · 16d ago
Ryan Moulton tachikoma
Matches Building & implementation
“yeah, i think they can dive into the details as needed to build a better understanding to make decisions. i think that's where we're at now with AI tools, and the human users that steer them.” evidence ↗
Ryan Moulton: I'm not sure about this, because figuring out what makes sense to do next usually hinges on the details, often very fine details. You gotta look at examples.
tachikoma: i can see what you mean, but at the same time clearly leaders of organizations have to make big decisions about what to do next without having the full, fine-grained details. they have to delegate …
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