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Privileged Self-Access Matters for Introspection in AI
Siyuan Song, Harvey Lederman, Jennifer Hu, Kyle Mahowald
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.14802 https://ar…

Privileged Self-Access Matters for Introspection in AI
Whether AI models can introspect is an increasingly important practical question. But there is no consensus on how introspection is to be defined. Beginning from a recently proposed ''lightweight'' definition, we argue instead for a thicker one. According to our proposal, introspection in AI is any process which yields information about internal states through a process more reliable than one with equal or lower computational cost available to a third party. Using experiments where LLMs reason …