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Even limited functional introspective awareness has practical implications for transparency, interpretability, and deception

Discussion of dual-use nature of introspection.

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Emergent Introspective Awareness in Large Language Models

(2026) · Lindsey, Jack

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Mechanistic interpretability & model evaluation
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Spans attention head decomposition, benchmark awareness, and genomic pathogenicity prediction via neural models.
Mechanistic introspection in language models
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Empirical investigation of how LMs access and report internal states across layers, using concept injection and thought detection on Claude models.
LLM functional introspective awareness
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Empirical probing of language models' ability to detect and report their own internal concept representations

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