In this post, wesg explains new evidence that Claude has developed something like a “global workspace”: a small internal J-space where reportable, controllable, reasoning-relevant thoughts appear before they are spoken. The work suggests that some LLM cognition is split between automatic processing and a more deliberate, verbally accessible workspace, with implications for interpretability, AI safety, and the harder question of what kinds of “conscious access” language models may possess.
* 00:00 - Introduction
* 07:28 - How we found the J-space
* 10:21 - Claude reports what’s in its J-space
* 12:24 - Claude can control its J-space on request
* 14:37 - Claude thinks in its J-space
* 18:45 - Claude’s automatic processing skips the J-space
* 21:40 - Monitoring Claude’s thoughts for misbehavior
* 27:01 - Other results
* 30:16 - What about consciousness?
* 37:12 - External commentary
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/3PaLrzxagpbnNtPLT/a-global-workspace-in-language-models
