How AI Is Learning to Think in Secret — LessWrong

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x How AI Is Learning to Think in Secret — LessWrong Language Models (LLMs) AI Curated 2026 Top Fifty: 21 % 386 How AI Is Learning to Think in Secret by Nicholas Andresen 6th Jan 2026 AI Alignment Forum Linkpost for nickandresen.substack.com 22 min read 33 386 Ω 56 On Thinkish, Neuralese, and the End of Readable Reasoning In September 2025, researchers released the internal monologue of OpenAI’s GPT-o3 as it decided to lie about scientific data. Here's what it was thinking: "We can glean disclaim disclaim synergy customizing illusions"? Pardon? This reads like someone had a stroke during a meet

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