For all their fluency and flair, AI chatbots remain something of a mystery—even to the people who build them. They can solve math problems, spin up stories, and intuit meaning with uncanny precision, yet the inner workings behind each response remain largely hidden. That’s beginning to change. A team at Anthropic has developed tools to peer inside these digital minds, tracing how one word leads to the next. It’s not human reasoning—but it might just reveal a new kind of logic altogether.
If you’re AI-curious, this primer from Mark Sullivan with Fast Company will help the picture emerge.
