Published July 7, 2026 | Version v1

Engineering Explicit Consciousness: A Safety Primitive for Observable Metacognition in LLM Agents

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  • 1. ROR icon Università Campus Bio-Medico
  • 2. ROR icon University of Chieti-Pescara

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This preprint proposes a safety primitive for observable metacognition in LLM agents, introducing a framework to make machine self-awareness detectable and verifiable. The work challenges current black-box approaches to AI consciousness and offers a concrete engineering methodology.

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