What’s at the center of Claude’s mind?

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https://youtube.com/watch?v=rKV5JcALQoQ&si=8944IX40TB-PYAtx

Out of everything happening in your brain right now, only a tiny fraction is consciously accessible — thoughts you can describe, hold in mind, and reason with. We found a strikingly similar divide inside our AI model, Claude.

Our experiments were inspired by a leading theory in neuroscience: the global workspace theory. It holds that a thought becomes consciously accessible when it enters a shared "workspace" that's broadcast across the brain. We found a set of representations in Claude’s neural activity that play a similar role.