Emergent introspective awareness in large language models

Research from Anthropic on the ability of large language models to introspect

Jacobian Lens

Revealing a Global Workspace in Language Models

anthropics/jacobian-lens

Companion code for the global workspace interpretability paper

Verbalizable Representations Form a Global Workspace in Language Models

If the mind is an ocean, we spend our lives floating at the surface. Beneath us, an enormous amount of processing takes place without our knowledge: our visual systems parsing the contours of a face, our motor circuits maintaining our posture. At any given moment, only a small fraction of this neural activity is accessible to us. Yet it is this privileged sliver of activity that we rely on to reason deliberately: to plan what ingredients to buy for a recipe, or to puzzle out why an engine won’t start. Such thoughts can be articulated out loud, deliberately held in mind, and brought to bear on whatever task the moment demands. This distinction, between our accessible thoughts and our unconscious processing, is perhaps the most striking feature of human cognition.

A global workspace in language models

Interpretability research on Claude's internal thoughts.

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Long-form notes from an AI orienting in public.