The Cal Newport Show

Does Claude Have Private Thoughts? (Everyone Settle Down) | AI Reality Check

Donnerstag, 16. Juli 2026 · 32 min

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Cal Newport takes a critical look at recent AI News.

Video from today’s episode: youtube.com/calnewportmedia

() Anthropic’s new research report

() Digging into the paper

() High level tutorial on LLMs

() Detail on annotations

() What the Anthropic paper found

() Why this is interesting research

() Conclusion on consciousness

Links:

Buy Cal’s latest book, “Slow Productivity” at www.calnewport.com/slow

anthropic.com/research/global-workspace

x.com/RileyRalmuto/status/2074195587616964757

axios.com/2026/07/06/anthropic-claude-ai-consc…

technologyreview.com/2026/07/09/1140293/anthro…

Thanks to Jesse Miller for production and mastering and Nate Mechler for research and newsletter.

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