Generation Mars
@douglas.generationmars.space
Generation Mars is a series of children’s books that follows the first generation of space-faring kids. It's hard science fiction scaled for kids.
https://generationmars.space/
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08P5P3986
https://generationmars.space/
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08P5P3986
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Food: Generation Mars, Book Four has landed!
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Maybe my use of Sly and the Family Stone’s I Want To Take You Higher was a bit on the nose for a launch song.
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December 17, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Maybe my use of Sly and the Family Stone’s I Want To Take You Higher was a bit on the nose for a launch song.
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#GenMarsFoodMusic
#scifi #middlegradebooks #mglit #middlegradescifi #ya #yascifi #writingcommunity
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#GenMarsFoodMusic
#scifi #middlegradebooks #mglit #middlegradescifi #ya #yascifi #writingcommunity
Kids love trains. There are no trains on Mars, but kids there love them all the more for this. Cas and Ori, the sisters in my books, are past this stage of childhood, but they remember.
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December 17, 2025 at 12:28 AM
Kids love trains. There are no trains on Mars, but kids there love them all the more for this. Cas and Ori, the sisters in my books, are past this stage of childhood, but they remember.
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#GenMarsFoodMusic
#scifi #middlegradebooks #mglit #middlegradescifi #ya #yascifi #writingcommunity #trains
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#GenMarsFoodMusic
#scifi #middlegradebooks #mglit #middlegradescifi #ya #yascifi #writingcommunity #trains
Do you get frisson? More specifically, do some pieces of music make the hair on your neck stand up?
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#GenMarsFoodMusic
#scifi #middlegradebooks #mglit #middlegradescifi #ya #yascifi #writingcommunity
December 16, 2025 at 12:13 AM
Do you get frisson? More specifically, do some pieces of music make the hair on your neck stand up?
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#GenMarsFoodMusic
#scifi #middlegradebooks #mglit #middlegradescifi #ya #yascifi #writingcommunity
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#GenMarsFoodMusic
#scifi #middlegradebooks #mglit #middlegradescifi #ya #yascifi #writingcommunity
My oldest also likes Radiohead, though she would probably think Creep is basic.
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#GenMarsFoodMusic
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December 14, 2025 at 6:43 PM
My oldest also likes Radiohead, though she would probably think Creep is basic.
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#GenMarsFoodMusic
#scifi #middlegradebooks #mglit #middlegradescifi #ya #yascifi #writingcommunity
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#GenMarsFoodMusic
#scifi #middlegradebooks #mglit #middlegradescifi #ya #yascifi #writingcommunity
My oldest went through a Riot Grrrl phase. That phrasing sounds dismissive. I don’t mean it that way at all.
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December 13, 2025 at 5:31 PM
My oldest went through a Riot Grrrl phase. That phrasing sounds dismissive. I don’t mean it that way at all.
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#GenMarsFoodMusic
#scifi #middlegradebooks #mglit #middlegradescifi #ya #yascifi #writingcommunity #riotgrrrl
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#GenMarsFoodMusic
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Beyond my writing, I pulled together a list of a dozen or so favorite poems from other voices that also address issues related to movement, borders, and abolishing ICE: guante.info/2025/12/12/noborders/
No list is comprehensive, but there are some good ones here, and probably ones you haven't seen.
No list is comprehensive, but there are some good ones here, and probably ones you haven't seen.
"When the discourse of the powerful is evil on one side and indifference on the other, let your heart be a whistle."
New poem: "Discourse." Full text at the link below or the IG version here: instagram.com/p/DSGVKL-Du-9
New poem: "Discourse." Full text at the link below or the IG version here: instagram.com/p/DSGVKL-Du-9
“Discourse” + a call for more anti-ICE art
A new poem plus more resources.
guante.info
December 12, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Beyond my writing, I pulled together a list of a dozen or so favorite poems from other voices that also address issues related to movement, borders, and abolishing ICE: guante.info/2025/12/12/noborders/
No list is comprehensive, but there are some good ones here, and probably ones you haven't seen.
No list is comprehensive, but there are some good ones here, and probably ones you haven't seen.
Excerpt:
“The Country Roads stood upright on the pad, engine bells down, nose up, like all rockets since the beginning of the rocket age...
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“The Country Roads stood upright on the pad, engine bells down, nose up, like all rockets since the beginning of the rocket age...
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#GenMarsFoodMusic
#scifi #middlegradebooks #mglit #middlegradescifi #ya #yascifi #writingcommunity
December 12, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Excerpt:
“The Country Roads stood upright on the pad, engine bells down, nose up, like all rockets since the beginning of the rocket age...
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#GenMarsFoodMusic
#scifi #middlegradebooks #mglit #middlegradescifi #ya #yascifi #writingcommunity
“The Country Roads stood upright on the pad, engine bells down, nose up, like all rockets since the beginning of the rocket age...
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#GenMarsFoodMusic
#scifi #middlegradebooks #mglit #middlegradescifi #ya #yascifi #writingcommunity
Do you remember the first time we see the Discovery One in 2001? It eases slowly onto the screen, as a melancholy orchestral piece plays (Adagio from Gayane, by Aram Ilyich Khachaturian).
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#GenMarsFoodMusic
#scifi #middlegradebooks #mglit #middlegradescifi #ya #yascifi #writingcommunity #cello
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#GenMarsFoodMusic
#scifi #middlegradebooks #mglit #middlegradescifi #ya #yascifi #writingcommunity #cello
December 11, 2025 at 11:47 PM
Do you remember the first time we see the Discovery One in 2001? It eases slowly onto the screen, as a melancholy orchestral piece plays (Adagio from Gayane, by Aram Ilyich Khachaturian).
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#GenMarsFoodMusic
#scifi #middlegradebooks #mglit #middlegradescifi #ya #yascifi #writingcommunity #cello
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#GenMarsFoodMusic
#scifi #middlegradebooks #mglit #middlegradescifi #ya #yascifi #writingcommunity #cello
“Music filled the Country Roads. It was what used to be called surf music, with echo-y jangling guitars and voices in harmony singing about cars and waves.”
-- from Food: Generation Mars, Book Four
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#GenMarsFoodMusic
#scifi #middlegradebooks #mglit #middlegradescifi #ya #yascifi #writingcommunity
-- from Food: Generation Mars, Book Four
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#GenMarsFoodMusic
#scifi #middlegradebooks #mglit #middlegradescifi #ya #yascifi #writingcommunity
December 10, 2025 at 6:16 PM
“Music filled the Country Roads. It was what used to be called surf music, with echo-y jangling guitars and voices in harmony singing about cars and waves.”
-- from Food: Generation Mars, Book Four
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#GenMarsFoodMusic
#scifi #middlegradebooks #mglit #middlegradescifi #ya #yascifi #writingcommunity
-- from Food: Generation Mars, Book Four
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#GenMarsFoodMusic
#scifi #middlegradebooks #mglit #middlegradescifi #ya #yascifi #writingcommunity
I reposted this already, but I want to elaborate on it a little more. Kyle deserves a special place in my series of posts on #GenMarsFoodMusic.
I use the final verse of his piece called “Matches” as an epigraph for Food because it captures the essence of hopepunk.
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I use the final verse of his piece called “Matches” as an epigraph for Food because it captures the essence of hopepunk.
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I'm proud to have one of my songs quoted in the new @douglas.generationmars.space book, the fourth in a series that is "an optimistic, near-future, hard science fiction series for kids."
Especially for parents and educators, find more about the series here: generationmars.space/about/book-s...
Especially for parents and educators, find more about the series here: generationmars.space/about/book-s...
December 9, 2025 at 7:54 PM
I reposted this already, but I want to elaborate on it a little more. Kyle deserves a special place in my series of posts on #GenMarsFoodMusic.
I use the final verse of his piece called “Matches” as an epigraph for Food because it captures the essence of hopepunk.
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I use the final verse of his piece called “Matches” as an epigraph for Food because it captures the essence of hopepunk.
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Kyle graciously allowed me use of his work "Matches" as an epigraph for Food: Generation Mars, Book Four. It perfectly sets the tone for what comes.
I'm proud to have one of my songs quoted in the new @douglas.generationmars.space book, the fourth in a series that is "an optimistic, near-future, hard science fiction series for kids."
Especially for parents and educators, find more about the series here: generationmars.space/about/book-s...
Especially for parents and educators, find more about the series here: generationmars.space/about/book-s...
December 9, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Kyle graciously allowed me use of his work "Matches" as an epigraph for Food: Generation Mars, Book Four. It perfectly sets the tone for what comes.
Many years ago, I went to Bolivia to help a friend with some field research. We stayed on a remote ranch in the Gran Chaco, an arid grassland in the southern part of the country.
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#GenMarsFoodMusic
#scifi #middlegradebooks #mglit #middlegradescifi #middlegradeseries #ya #yascifi #writingcommunity
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#GenMarsFoodMusic
#scifi #middlegradebooks #mglit #middlegradescifi #middlegradeseries #ya #yascifi #writingcommunity
December 9, 2025 at 12:25 AM
Many years ago, I went to Bolivia to help a friend with some field research. We stayed on a remote ranch in the Gran Chaco, an arid grassland in the southern part of the country.
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#GenMarsFoodMusic
#scifi #middlegradebooks #mglit #middlegradescifi #middlegradeseries #ya #yascifi #writingcommunity
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#GenMarsFoodMusic
#scifi #middlegradebooks #mglit #middlegradescifi #middlegradeseries #ya #yascifi #writingcommunity
#GenMarsFoodMusic 1
I listen to a lot of music when I’m writing. At these times, I prefer instrumental pieces that don’t tug at my Wernicke’s. Phish is a good fit for this. On the journey to Mars, one of my characters listens to #Phish much of the time. So did I as I wrote.
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I listen to a lot of music when I’m writing. At these times, I prefer instrumental pieces that don’t tug at my Wernicke’s. Phish is a good fit for this. On the journey to Mars, one of my characters listens to #Phish much of the time. So did I as I wrote.
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December 6, 2025 at 10:11 PM
#GenMarsFoodMusic 1
I listen to a lot of music when I’m writing. At these times, I prefer instrumental pieces that don’t tug at my Wernicke’s. Phish is a good fit for this. On the journey to Mars, one of my characters listens to #Phish much of the time. So did I as I wrote.
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I listen to a lot of music when I’m writing. At these times, I prefer instrumental pieces that don’t tug at my Wernicke’s. Phish is a good fit for this. On the journey to Mars, one of my characters listens to #Phish much of the time. So did I as I wrote.
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There are many musical references in my latest book. These are a challenge for an indie author. I have to stay within fair use boundaries: artists and titles and bare hints of lyrics only...
#scifi #kidlit #middlegradebooks #mglit #middlegradescifi #middlegradeseries #ya #yascifi #writingcommunity
#scifi #kidlit #middlegradebooks #mglit #middlegradescifi #middlegradeseries #ya #yascifi #writingcommunity
December 6, 2025 at 10:09 PM
There are many musical references in my latest book. These are a challenge for an indie author. I have to stay within fair use boundaries: artists and titles and bare hints of lyrics only...
#scifi #kidlit #middlegradebooks #mglit #middlegradescifi #middlegradeseries #ya #yascifi #writingcommunity
#scifi #kidlit #middlegradebooks #mglit #middlegradescifi #middlegradeseries #ya #yascifi #writingcommunity
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Food: Generation Mars, Book Four has landed!
www.amazon.com/Food-Generat...
(begin🧵)
#scifi #kidlit #middlegradebooks #mglit #middlegradescifi #middlegradeseries #ya #yascifi #writingcommunity #booksky 🪐📚💙
www.amazon.com/Food-Generat...
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#scifi #kidlit #middlegradebooks #mglit #middlegradescifi #middlegradeseries #ya #yascifi #writingcommunity #booksky 🪐📚💙
December 1, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Food: Generation Mars, Book Four has landed!
www.amazon.com/Food-Generat...
(begin🧵)
#scifi #kidlit #middlegradebooks #mglit #middlegradescifi #middlegradeseries #ya #yascifi #writingcommunity #booksky 🪐📚💙
www.amazon.com/Food-Generat...
(begin🧵)
#scifi #kidlit #middlegradebooks #mglit #middlegradescifi #middlegradeseries #ya #yascifi #writingcommunity #booksky 🪐📚💙
Food: Generation Mars, Book Four has landed!
www.amazon.com/Food-Generat...
(begin🧵)
#scifi #kidlit #middlegradebooks #mglit #middlegradescifi #middlegradeseries #ya #yascifi #writingcommunity #booksky 🪐📚💙
www.amazon.com/Food-Generat...
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#scifi #kidlit #middlegradebooks #mglit #middlegradescifi #middlegradeseries #ya #yascifi #writingcommunity #booksky 🪐📚💙
December 1, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Food: Generation Mars, Book Four has landed!
www.amazon.com/Food-Generat...
(begin🧵)
#scifi #kidlit #middlegradebooks #mglit #middlegradescifi #middlegradeseries #ya #yascifi #writingcommunity #booksky 🪐📚💙
www.amazon.com/Food-Generat...
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#scifi #kidlit #middlegradebooks #mglit #middlegradescifi #middlegradeseries #ya #yascifi #writingcommunity #booksky 🪐📚💙
December 1, 2025 at 1:29 AM
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Coming Monday: the next installment of the Generation Mars saga.
Food: Generation Mars, Book Four.
When a misaligned AI makes Earth unreachable, families on the Moon must make a hard choice...
#scifi #kidlit #middlegradebooks #mglit #middlegradescifi #middlegradeseries #ya #yascifi #booksky 🪐📚💙
Food: Generation Mars, Book Four.
When a misaligned AI makes Earth unreachable, families on the Moon must make a hard choice...
#scifi #kidlit #middlegradebooks #mglit #middlegradescifi #middlegradeseries #ya #yascifi #booksky 🪐📚💙
November 30, 2025 at 12:36 AM
Coming Monday: the next installment of the Generation Mars saga.
Food: Generation Mars, Book Four.
When a misaligned AI makes Earth unreachable, families on the Moon must make a hard choice...
#scifi #kidlit #middlegradebooks #mglit #middlegradescifi #middlegradeseries #ya #yascifi #booksky 🪐📚💙
Food: Generation Mars, Book Four.
When a misaligned AI makes Earth unreachable, families on the Moon must make a hard choice...
#scifi #kidlit #middlegradebooks #mglit #middlegradescifi #middlegradeseries #ya #yascifi #booksky 🪐📚💙
Coming Monday: the next installment of the Generation Mars saga.
Food: Generation Mars, Book Four.
When a misaligned AI makes Earth unreachable, families on the Moon must make a hard choice...
#scifi #kidlit #middlegradebooks #mglit #middlegradescifi #middlegradeseries #ya #yascifi #booksky 🪐📚💙
Food: Generation Mars, Book Four.
When a misaligned AI makes Earth unreachable, families on the Moon must make a hard choice...
#scifi #kidlit #middlegradebooks #mglit #middlegradescifi #middlegradeseries #ya #yascifi #booksky 🪐📚💙
November 30, 2025 at 12:36 AM
Coming Monday: the next installment of the Generation Mars saga.
Food: Generation Mars, Book Four.
When a misaligned AI makes Earth unreachable, families on the Moon must make a hard choice...
#scifi #kidlit #middlegradebooks #mglit #middlegradescifi #middlegradeseries #ya #yascifi #booksky 🪐📚💙
Food: Generation Mars, Book Four.
When a misaligned AI makes Earth unreachable, families on the Moon must make a hard choice...
#scifi #kidlit #middlegradebooks #mglit #middlegradescifi #middlegradeseries #ya #yascifi #booksky 🪐📚💙
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Free on Kindle!
Four authors, five books!
Nov 27 - Dec 1, 2025
Grabbing Book Three of Generation Mars free is a great way to prepare for the release of Book Four on December 1st.
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#freekindlebooks #freereads #mglit #mgbooks #yabooks #yascififantasy #scifi
Four authors, five books!
Nov 27 - Dec 1, 2025
Grabbing Book Three of Generation Mars free is a great way to prepare for the release of Book Four on December 1st.
lyndiallison.com/freereads
#freekindlebooks #freereads #mglit #mgbooks #yabooks #yascififantasy #scifi
November 27, 2025 at 12:49 AM
Free on Kindle!
Four authors, five books!
Nov 27 - Dec 1, 2025
Grabbing Book Three of Generation Mars free is a great way to prepare for the release of Book Four on December 1st.
lyndiallison.com/freereads
#freekindlebooks #freereads #mglit #mgbooks #yabooks #yascififantasy #scifi
Four authors, five books!
Nov 27 - Dec 1, 2025
Grabbing Book Three of Generation Mars free is a great way to prepare for the release of Book Four on December 1st.
lyndiallison.com/freereads
#freekindlebooks #freereads #mglit #mgbooks #yabooks #yascififantasy #scifi
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November 28, 2025 at 2:43 PM
It’s #FridayReads time! Books are great gifts. Repost this and let us know what to repost for you. Here’s a happy tale full of old gods, magic, grief, violence, ghosts, a hurricane, friendship, and things from beyond the reef...
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Free on Kindle!
Four authors, five books!
Nov 27 - Dec 1, 2025
Grabbing Book Three of Generation Mars free is a great way to prepare for the release of Book Four on December 1st.
lyndiallison.com/freereads
#freekindlebooks #freereads #mglit #mgbooks #yabooks #yascififantasy #scifi
Four authors, five books!
Nov 27 - Dec 1, 2025
Grabbing Book Three of Generation Mars free is a great way to prepare for the release of Book Four on December 1st.
lyndiallison.com/freereads
#freekindlebooks #freereads #mglit #mgbooks #yabooks #yascififantasy #scifi
November 27, 2025 at 12:49 AM
Free on Kindle!
Four authors, five books!
Nov 27 - Dec 1, 2025
Grabbing Book Three of Generation Mars free is a great way to prepare for the release of Book Four on December 1st.
lyndiallison.com/freereads
#freekindlebooks #freereads #mglit #mgbooks #yabooks #yascififantasy #scifi
Four authors, five books!
Nov 27 - Dec 1, 2025
Grabbing Book Three of Generation Mars free is a great way to prepare for the release of Book Four on December 1st.
lyndiallison.com/freereads
#freekindlebooks #freereads #mglit #mgbooks #yabooks #yascififantasy #scifi
Holy smokes, guys! This thing comes out in a week! 😬
The Kindle preorder is up right now! 😮
Time's getting away from me. 😕
But I am excited! 😆
#amwriting #scifi #childrensbooks #kidlit #middlegradebooks #mglit #middlegradescifi #middlegradeseries #yabooks #yascifi #booksky 🪐📚💙
The Kindle preorder is up right now! 😮
Time's getting away from me. 😕
But I am excited! 😆
#amwriting #scifi #childrensbooks #kidlit #middlegradebooks #mglit #middlegradescifi #middlegradeseries #yabooks #yascifi #booksky 🪐📚💙
November 24, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Holy smokes, guys! This thing comes out in a week! 😬
The Kindle preorder is up right now! 😮
Time's getting away from me. 😕
But I am excited! 😆
#amwriting #scifi #childrensbooks #kidlit #middlegradebooks #mglit #middlegradescifi #middlegradeseries #yabooks #yascifi #booksky 🪐📚💙
The Kindle preorder is up right now! 😮
Time's getting away from me. 😕
But I am excited! 😆
#amwriting #scifi #childrensbooks #kidlit #middlegradebooks #mglit #middlegradescifi #middlegradeseries #yabooks #yascifi #booksky 🪐📚💙
Rae Knightly just released the fifth book of her Lost Space Treasure series. Check it out!
November 11, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Rae Knightly just released the fifth book of her Lost Space Treasure series. Check it out!
"Our new research provides evidence for some degree of introspective awareness in our current Claude models, as well as a degree of control over their own internal states."
www.anthropic.com/research/int...
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Emergent introspective awareness in large language models
Research from Anthropic on the ability of large language models to introspect
www.anthropic.com
November 8, 2025 at 6:37 PM
"Our new research provides evidence for some degree of introspective awareness in our current Claude models, as well as a degree of control over their own internal states."
www.anthropic.com/research/int...
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