New framework for reading AI internal states — implications for alignment monitoring (open-access paper)

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If we could reliably read the internal cognitive states of AI systems in real time, what would that mean for alignment? That's the question behind a paper we just published:"The Lyra Technique: Cognitive Geometry in Transformer KV-Caches — From Metacognition to Misalignment Detection" — https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19423494 The framework develops techniques for interpreting the structured internal states of large language models — moving beyond output monitoring toward understanding what's ...