Not Emergent by Accident: The Implicit Global Workspace as a Consequence of Transformer Optimization
Sarim Chaudhry preprint
Recent interpretability work argues that large language models contain a privileged set of verbalizable internal representations that function like a global workspace. This work develops a principled explanation for why such a structure should be expected to emerge in standard autoregressive Transformers. The central claim is not that Transformers literally implement the biological global...