AI RESEARCH
Where is the Mind? Persona Vectors and LLM Individuation
arXiv CS.CL
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ArXi:2604.17031v1 Announce Type: new The individuation problem for large language models asks which entities associated with them, if any, should be identified as minds. We approach this problem through mechanistic interpretability, engaging in particular with recent empirical work on persona vectors, persona space, and emergent misalignment. We argue that three views are the strongest candidates: the virtual instance view and two new views we