According to the company's research, Claude developed an internal "global workspace" during training that helps it reason through complex tasks, a structure researchers say emerged without being explicitly designed.

Anthropic discovers J-space, an emergent global workspace inside Claude models that mirrors human conscious thought, advancing AI interpretability and

Anthropic’s new Claude research reveals a hidden internal “global workspace” that resembles human conscious processing, raising major questions about AI reasoning,…

The discovery, which Anthropic announced in a white paper, is a new frontier in the conversation about AI consciousness.