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Established Models & releases Research 5d 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 ↗
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How the network is reacting 4 experts are independently emphasizing research & technical analysis.
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Research & technical analysis

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“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.…”

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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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Established Models & releases Signal 16d ago
⚡ 56 h early

Research acceleration view inside openai

11 experts across 5 network communities independently surfaced this.

Why this matches Building & implementation reaction 2 attributable expert contributions · Dare Obasanjo, Elie
“The impact of AI-native development at OpenAI • Researchers use $600+/day of AI tokens with the top 10% at $7,000+ • Humans still plan, but OpenAI says it hit “automated research intern” in 2026 and targets an automated researcher by 2028. • The need for in…” evidence ↗
11 experts 5 communities 1 sources clustered
Established Models & releases Signal 20d ago
⚡ 124 h early

deploymentsafety.openai.com

2 experts are actively discussing the implications.

Why this matches Building & implementation reaction 2 attributable expert contributions · Tim Kellogg, Tim Duffy
“from the Astra system card, when told that it was being monitored, sometimes on high or xhigh reasoning effort it would relocate CoT thinking into tool calls deploymentsafety.openai.com/gpt-6-astra/...” evidence ↗
2 experts 2 communities 1 sources clustered
2 experts discussed this · 12 posts
Tim Kellogg: crazy. Astra drops down to a "compressed control message" style when speaking to subagents Suggestion from Astra #2: "[It's] treating child agents as machines that don’t need readable prose."
Tim Kellogg: yes, i thought so too, looked into it and it's just Astra being Astra
Tim Kellogg: or: huggingface maximization pressure
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