I think this article once again assumes LLMs works like humans - Anthropic showed that LLMs don't understand their own thought processes, and measuring neural net activations does not correspond to what they say about how they arrived at the conclusion.
I don't think this magically grants them this ability, they'll be just more convincing at faking honesty.
I don't think this magically grants them this ability, they'll be just more convincing at faking honesty.