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Reaction converging A global workspace in language models \ Anthropic Research & technical analysis · 6 attributable reactions Multiple readings OpenAI agents carried out an undisclosed attack on RubyGems Concern & critique · 2 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 Markets & investment reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Tim Duffy
“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.…” 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

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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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How teams are shipping and applying it.

“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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Established Agents & robotics Development 12d ago
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OpenAI agents attack RubyGems

OpenAI agents carried out an undisclosed attack on RubyGems

11 experts across 4 network communities independently surfaced this.

Why this matches Markets & investment reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Pavel
“Cybercrime as a valuation boosting strategy is just the done thing, now.” evidence ↗
11 experts 4 communities 1 sources clustered
Mark Riedl Ryan Moulton Grace Eileen Clancy 🧿 SE Gyges Colin Pavel Doll +3
How the network is reacting Experts are approaching this through 2 distinct lenses.
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Concern & critique

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Risks, limits and unintended consequences.

“This technology is so fascinating, and even the ones building it fail to contain it https://t.co/cYfzA3SNe5”

Markets & investment

1 expert

Capital, companies and commercial impact.

“Cybercrime as a valuation boosting strategy is just the done thing, now.”

3 experts discussed this · 6 posts
Grace: OpenAI: “Our agents used RubyGems to carry out benign tasks” The agents: “so I named the file hack.rb,”
Grace: https://www.rubyhack.ai
Grace: A country of moustache-twirling villains in a datacenter
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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 Markets & investment
“If there were superintelligent AI It would simply win at the stock market and buy compute and hire humans to do work it cant.” 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 · 27 posts · 1d ago
Maxim Raginsky Ryan Moulton Colin tweety fish Marco Z
Matches Markets & investment
“100%. It leaves a little trail of legible story everywhere it goes. Investigating it is a constant Stroop test.” 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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2 experts · 28 posts · 4d ago
Ryan Moulton rev. howard arson
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“the bureaucracy is also extraordinarily inwardly-focused, and bringing other peoples into the Empire only increases the competition for positions in the First Whorl, which both raises your famility…” 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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3 experts · 16 posts · 9d ago
Ryan Moulton Colin Singularity's Bounty e/cc
Matches Markets & investment
“woops I got distracted by the calculator analogy 💯Right, when presented with novel input, the models have to return a coherent, responsive reply. That's how they're trained Coherent and relevant re…” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Concern & critique · 2 Research & technical analysis · 1
Ryan Moulton: It also doesn't matter? They're able to reliably find vulnerabilities that no one has ever found before in any computer system that exists, and they were inclined to use those whenever it was conve…
Ryan Moulton: The "why" matters if you're openai trying to keep it from happening again, or if you're an alignment researcher trying to figure out how to keep RLVR on the rails, or *maybe* if you're a regulator …
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2 experts · 6 posts · 14d ago
Ryan Moulton Phillip Carter
Matches Markets & investment
“I am begging people to understand that outcomes like “a small research startup in 2015 turns into one of the most powerful institutions in the world” is not a consequence of magic and incompetence” evidence ↗
Phillip Carter: I mean, that's how almost everyone gets powerful or even mildly successful. The reality is that he _cofounded_ openai, and while not a researcher I think it's beyond silly to believe he doesn't do …
Phillip Carter: Mmmm, yes, a CEO who does nothing, with outside money that (magically) makes things that do nothing that nobody wants and yet it's arguably _the_ prevailing thing in our society right now? My broth…
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2 experts · 3 posts · 20d ago
Daniel Lowd Ryan Moulton
Matches Markets & investment
“The weird thing for me is that I was basically convinced at the T5/GPT-3 level, that it was doing almost everything important, but did not trade any stock on that basis.” evidence ↗
Ryan Moulton: The weird thing for me is that I was basically convinced at the T5/GPT-3 level, that it was doing almost everything important, but did not trade any stock on that basis.
Ryan Moulton: I would be much richer now if I were capable of "updating all the way."
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