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Frontier Log — entries on ARG-02

Every log entry whose diagnostic reading tests ARG-02, newest first.

Entries

Gurnee, Sofroniew, Lindsey et al. — "Verbalizable Representations Form a Global Workspace in Language Models" (Anthropic, 6 July 2026)

Thread 1 2026-07-06 Symmetry: Acknowledged Tags: ARG-01, FWK-03, ARG-03, ARG-02 source ↗

Anthropic interpretability researchers introduce a 'Jacobian lens' surfacing a small, evolving set of internal representations a model is poised to verbalise, atop a much larger volume of automatic processing.

Hinton — “they’re already conscious” (May–June 2026)

Thread 1 2026-06-03 Symmetry: Partial Tags: ARG-01, ARG-02, FND-01, FWK-03 source ↗

In two appearances weeks apart, Geoffrey Hinton stated that current AI systems are 'already conscious' — 'beings like us' — and that he under-voices the claim to protect his safety message.

Lanier — “there is no AI” restated (May 2026)

Thread 1 2026-05-23 Symmetry: Not acknowledged Tags: ARG-01, ARG-02, ARG-03, FWK-03 source ↗

Jaron Lanier restated his 2023 position: open the black box and 'the only thing in there is people' — AI as a collaboration of people rather than a new entity.

Seth — TED talk on AI consciousness (May 2026)

Thread 1 2026-05-16 Symmetry: Not acknowledged Tags: ARG-01, ARG-02, FWK-03 source ↗

Anil Seth's public-audience statement of biological naturalism: attributing consciousness to language models is projection, and 'it's life, not computation, that breathes the fire into the equations'.

Seth — The Mythology of Conscious AI (January 2026)

Thread 1 2026-01-14 Symmetry: Partial Tags: ARG-01, ARG-02, FWK-03 source ↗

Seth's Berggruen Prize essay makes the developed public case against conscious AI: four arguments against computational functionalism, with life claimed as 'necessary, though not necessarily sufficient'.