Anthropic's new "J-lens" reveals a silent workspace inside Claude that mirrors a leading theory of consciousness
Anthropic, the artificial intelligence company, published a sweeping research paper on Sunday revealing that its Claude language models have spontaneously developed an internal structure that mirrors one of the most influential theories of how human consciousness works. The finding, which the company says has already begun reshaping how it monitors its AI systems for safety risks, lands amid an intensifying scientific debate over whether machines can possess anything resembling a mind.
The 16-author study, titled "Verbalizable Representations Form a Global Workspace in Language Models," describes how Anthropic's researchers used a new mathematical technique to peer inside Claude's neural network and discovered what they call a "J-space" — a small, privileged zone of internal activity where the model holds concepts it can report on, reason with, and direct at will, surrounded by a much larger ocean of automatic processing it cannot access or articulate.
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