Anthropic found a workspace inside Claude where thoughts form that never appear in its output.

The structure resembles human conscious access, but it demonstrates architecture rather than experience.

The machine may not be mindless, but it is lifeless, because its thinking costs it nothing at all.

In March, I wrote that language can now operate without a mind behind it. It was the cleanest statement of anti-intelligence I could make, and I believed it. I'm no longer sure I can say it that way because something might have just changed.

Last week, Anthropic published a study that looked "inside" its Claude models with an interesting tool. What the researchers found surprised them, and it surprised me. I'll let the authors explain.

We identify these representations using a new interpretability technique, which surfaces the concepts a model is poised to verbalize at any point in its processing. Measuring and intervening on these representations provides us a window into a model’s thought processes, uncovering internal reasoning and reactions that do not appear in its output.

We identify these representations using a new interpretability technique, which surfaces the concepts a model is poised to verbalize at any point in its processing. Measuring and intervening on these representations provides us a........

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