What Is Neuralese? AI’s Hidden Language, Latent Reasoning, and the Black-Box Problem
Neuralese is not a secret language, a hidden code, or evidence of machine consciousness. It is a useful term for the vector-based internal representations through which AI systems process context, coordinate information, and perform intermediate computation beyond human-readable words. This article explains how Transformers and latent reasoning work—and why increasingly opaque internal computation creates a growing challenge for AI transparency, safety, and accountability.