The company calls the collection of patterns the J-space, which it says was not built by researchers, but formed on its own as Claude was trained.

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.