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The speaker says models appear to use representations at multiple levels of resolution along a spectrum of abstraction.

Tim Scarfe · AI 2040: Plan A report - Daniel Kokotajlo & Thomas Larsen · 8 Sep 2026

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“that weren't possible before but the grounding thing is interesting so it's not necessarily an argument that you need to have physical instantiation you need to have consciousness but there is a spectrum of representations down this abstraction mountain and the models seem to be actually using the representations at multiple levels of resolution but it's not like intelligence is this magical quality I still think that it has you know it relates to a scope of tasks and it relates”
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