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Linyi Yang

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#artificial intelligence Preprint Aug 2026

Mechanist: AI as a Scientific Instrument for Discovering the Mechanisms of Intelligence

Mechanist is an agentic system that uses AI as a scientific instrument for the autonomous discovery of mechanisms underlying AI intelligence, and develops a mechanism theory of belief, revealing how models represent world knowledge, form beliefs, infer the beliefs of others, and how these mechanisms emerge during pretraining.

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