The emergency of goals in large language models is not localized to a specific 'goal slot' in their architecture, but rather emerges from the entire neural network in response to training incentives, similar to how human goals emerge from brain circuitry in response to evolutionary and environmental pressures.
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Daniel KokotajloEvidence Quote
“it's emergent property of a whole bunch of circuitry within them that grew in response to their training environment”
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Robot Plumbers, Robot Armies, and Our Imminent A.I. Future | Interesting Times with Ross Douthat— Interesting Times with Ross DouthatCreated: 8/11/2026, 7:14:40 AM
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