Pierre Beckmann

I am a researcher working in Philosophy of AI and Philosophically-motivated AI. I am currently a PhD student in the Neuro-Symbolic AI group of Idiap and EPFL, working for the M-RATIONAL project. I also keep close ties to the institute for philosophy of Bern where I worked as a research assistant.

Recent Publications

Mechanistic Indicators of Understanding in Large Language Models

Pierre Beckmann, Matthieu Queloz

arXiv, Philosophy of AI • 2025

Building on mechanistic interpretability, we argue that LLMs exhibit signs of understanding—across three tiers: conceptual –, state-of-the-world –, and principled understanding.

New Horizons in Machine Understanding: Explanatory and Objectual Understanding in Deep Learning Video Generation Models

Pierre Beckmann

Synthese • 2025