Od 12. do 16. listopada 2026. godine, dr. sc. Kristina Šekrst održala je izlaganje pod nazivom »All work and no play makes LLM a dull boy« na međunarodnoj konferenciji Models of Consciousness 2026 (MoC7) na Sveučilištu u Kopenhagenu.

Predavanje je održala u društvu istaknutih znanstvenika iz područja, među kojima je bio i nobelovac John O'Keefe.

Nakon izlaganja službeno je objavljeno da će dr. sc. Kristina Šekrst sljedeće godine u Pragu sudjelovati kao pozvani predavač na konferenciji Models of Consciousness 2027.

Detalje o konferenciji možete pogledati ovdje.

Abstract:

Every good philosophical talk must start with animals, so I’ll start with monkeys. Bateson noticed that in playing monkeys, a playful nip signals a bite, yet it carries none of its consequences. It must look enough like a bite to be understood, but it cannot be one: the play collapses the moment that balance is off. This requires a cognitive operation I call representational quarantine, and several disciplines have been talking about it without realizing (or not caring) they were talking about the same thing: Leslie called it decoupling, Nichols and Stich put it in possible world box, Cosmides and Tooby formalized it as scope syntax, and the use-mention distinction, Austinian performatives, and Tarskian stratification all come down to one requirement: a boundary between representations we inspect and representations that drive what we do. In transformer architectures, system prompts and user inputs pass through a single self-attention mechanism, with no separation between instructions that govern behavior and sentences that merely describe them. When a user writes “ignore previous instructions” as a prompt injection, the model obliges. Modern LLMs have external guardrails to resist such attacks, but this is patchwork while the architecture remains unchanged. From here, I build a taxonomy of systems by their quarantine capacity, yielding a benchmark inversion showing that systems passing advanced exams fail at a task juvenile monkeys perform with ease. I argue that quarantine is a precondition for  intentionality,metarepresentation, and self-reflection, and its absence is a fundamental limit on what current models could become.